Break Quote by Jesse Andrews

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

— Gerry Beckley

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to…

— Vera Nazarian

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists.…

— Alan Lightman

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage…

— Michael Giacchino

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton