Book Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge…

— Vic Reeves

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write…

— Bruce Springsteen

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

— Virgil Abloh

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons…

— Don Winslow

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Brad Holland

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

— Kevin Barry

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also…

— Steven Price

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

— DeForest Kelley