Great literary Quote by Manuel Puig

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler

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

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you…

— Thom Gunn

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind…

— Doug TenNapel