Books Quote by 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

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

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 a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really…

— Megan Chance

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

— Gerry Beckley

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara…

— Virginia Henley

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz