Areas Quote by Paul Laffoley

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

— Helen Dunmore

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

— Erykah Badu

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot…

— Stephen King

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

— Lloyd Alexander

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

— Rick Riordan

“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure…

— Téa Obreht

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg

'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor.…

— Mark Frost

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William…

— Harlan Coben