Believe Quote by Sai Pallavi

Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a…

— Louis Pasteur

“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust…

— Heath White

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was…

— John Bonham

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints…

— Hozier

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

— V. S. Pritchett

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of…

— Harry Lloyd

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest…

— Teju Cole

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and…

— Alice McDermott

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

— Robert Hughes

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