About Quote by Steve Toltz

My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be a moment.

— Stephen Schwartz

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off…

— Kathy Acker

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

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

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

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