Anthropologists Quote by Michelle Rodriguez

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we…

— Sandra Cisneros

Herb Williams was a guy that took me in and taught me how to eat, taught me how to take care of my body.

— Monty Williams

Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical…

— Jeff Belanger

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

— Margaret Atwood

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

— Michael Moorcock

[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.…

— Charles Darwin

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the…

— Pankaj Mishra

“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis’s…

— Richard Wright