Allegiance Quote by Robert Stone

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

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

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

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because…

— Simon Rich

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work…

— Woody Allen

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find…

— Agnes Varda

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

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came…

— Margaret Mahy

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction,…

— Chris Pavone