Convinced Quote by Poppy Z. Brite

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.…

— Christopher Meledandri

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

— Marek Hlasko

It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open…

— Laura van den Berg

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the…

— J. M. Coetzee

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

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 can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

— Ira Glass

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

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

— Peter Benchley

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi