Books Quote by Richard Ford

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

— Lisa Lutz

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little girl.

— Evangeline Lilly

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

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

— Gerry Beckley

“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can only influence…

— Aldous Huxley

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

— Stephen Covey

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or…

— Jason Isbell

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis