Found Quote by Leigh Bardugo

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because…

— Simon Rich

As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's…

— Drew Barrymore

I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The…

— Colson Whitehead

There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with…

— Nick Hornby

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

— Micky Dolenz

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

— Tamora Pierce

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

— Andy Muschietti

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson