Being Quote by Steve Toltz Download Open image “I enjoy being influenced by other writers.” — Steve Toltz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being Enjoy Influenced Other Writers Writing
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image