Writers: what authors have influenced you the most?

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By that I mean: what authors or writers have had the biggest impact on the person you are today as a writer, and the sorts of things you write?

For me there are three: Richard Matheson, Peter Straub, and Stephen King.

Matheson because of how his mind works, and the pure genius and authenticity of his stories.  His short stories especially are products of a mind unlike any other, and his stories are blatant horror, but take such blatancy to very extreme and psychological levels.

Straub because of his ability to, as I often say, bend the horror genre to his will.  The horror he writes is unlike any a person would otherwise come across, and it clashes with so many other elements and his stories are so genius, his writing so fluid and great.

King because of how personal his stories are.  I mean, it's the same for the others, but with King, with the best of his books (such as "IT," "The Stand," "The Body," etc) I feel he put all of himself into, and I was able to connect so incredibly well...so deeply.

So what about you guys?

Cheers!

Brigitte Penvellyn · Accepted Answer

C.S. Lewis, John Green, and Ray Bradbury. Lewis is riveting and speaks to my heart. Green writes like he knows exactly what's going inside of my 17-year-old girl head. And Bradbury... I mean, who could not love him? Dandelion Wine changed the way I looked at fiction.

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Author/Writer - Libba Bray, Harper Lee, Stephen King,.. there is lots. =) Poet - Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allen Poe, or William Shakespeare, I bet. I do not learn a lot poetry. Does Jim Morrison depend? I have a ebook of lyrics & poems via him. Singer - How approximately a few bands? Breaking Benjamin, The Doors, and hundreds of thousands extra. But the ones are my most sensible two on the second. Book - Rebel Angels; Night; To Kill a Mockingbird... Those are my favorites correct now. But a good way to most of the time difference in a couple of days. =)

Vmeste v Parizhe · Answer

I have two authors that have inspired me: Stephen King and J.K. Rowling. 

King - When Mr. King first came out with his stories, no one really payed attention to them. No one really cared, either. He's explained many times that the only way he became well-known is because he kept being persistent and never gave up. He almost scrapped The Shining entirely but found creative ways around writer's block which made him never quit (for example, he would get drunk and sit at his typewriter. Sometimes he'd wake up and not ever remember writing scenes but they somehow got done).

Rowling - She inspires me because when she was young she didn't ever plan on being a famous writer. She was an everyday person who tried her best which, to me, is a lesson to be learned.

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Anonymous · Answer

Lewis Carrol, Mark Twain, and Grimms Fairy Tales.

They taught me the importance of imagination. 


btw i am not a writer..

martinchittenden580 · Answer

Hemmingway because he doesn't describe everything in too much detail.  He let's the reader imagine what the scene is for themselves.

Chrichton because he went deep into his characters and opened my mind to unlimited possibilities.

Stephen King because in his book on how to write he gave the advice that your characters are their own entity, don't limit them, let them flow freely.

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J.K Rowling, because of her genius creativity. 
John Steinbeck because of the depth of the stories he writes.
James Patterson because of his ability to make his books so action packed and entertaining.

TQOP · Answer

Anonymous writers and lyric writers like Baby face.

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