Feels Quote by Thom Gunn

“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is…

— Harold Bloom

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows into…

— Teju Cole

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about…

— David Cage

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread…

— Michel Houellebecq

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to…

— Vera Nazarian

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

— Stephen Covey

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across -…

— Laura Mullen

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford