Whose writing taught you how to write?

It comes from the my natural ability to abuse words of course :D

Just about everything I read now and have ever read in the past is/has been an influence. I like Oscar Wilde's beautiful prose style a lot - but then who doesn't?!

Spike Milligan's nonsense verse for kids was a very early inspiration - my first taste of child-like lunacy from a highly sophisticated and brilliant adult mind.

There are just so many great authors out there. I think a lot of literary humorists don't get the same kind of recognition afforded our more "serious" writers, which is a shame. Any books or writings that make people laugh are works of genius to me.

Love a good giggle!

Good Qs, Lizzy.

Cheers

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Too many to list...my writing style varies with the authors I read. It allows me to write from different perspectives when approaching my work. For instance, after I read "A Season in Hell" and "The Drunken Boat" by Arthur Rimbaud, I wrote a 5-page poem in a style similar to his, though using my own material and experiences. It's an interesting way to write. I'm still developing my own literary voice...

Peace.

It's more whose writing taught me HOW NOT to write. And I don't want to name names so as not to offend other people's favorite artists.

When I remember I really started to write, I tried to write like the authors whose books I loved at the time, Poe and Bradbury and Orwell.

Scary stories and science fiction at a very young age that weren't very good, but that I really enjoyed doing, and at least a few others enjoyed reading.

Langston Hughes.

Meg Rosoff, MT Anderson, and the poetic muse of Cody Weber.

Early on: Dylan Thomas, William Blake, Lorca and Lawrence.

Louise Gluck, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Charles Bukowski, Charles Simic (there will be more as I keep working at it).

a little bit of everyones. it's hard not to get influenced by the styles of my favorite authors

oh, and legalese. laws taught me how to make huge run on sentences and replete with comas and semi colons and colons everywhere.