Guineapiggy

I'm quite unfussed when it comes to style I'll pick up any book and analyse anything I can find for techniques and styles I like. Anything... Douglass Adams, Tolkien, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Stephen King, Emily Bronte, Margret Atwood, (I was the only male in the house so a lot of them were uberfeminist narcacists like Atwood...) R.L. Stevenson, H.G Wells etc. (And once, to my absolute shame I even read part of a Jefery Archer book...)

safari invasion

Michael Crichton has always influenced my thought process when it comes to developing plots. The concepts and creativity behind his books is something I try keeping in mind when I develop my own ideas.
I would say that I am also influenced by Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, and Poe among others.

strangedaze

Hmmmm...I am a self-professed Kafka-a-holic. I love George Orwell, and I usually get through his work three or four times faster than I would anything else. I like the aesthetic quality and emotion of Virginia Woolf's writing, though I have yet to conquer Mrs. Dalloway. I try to read all the classics and expand my horizens every now and again, but for some reason surrealism, dystopian literature, and stories spotlighting the darker facets of the human condition really catch my interest. I don't know who I could claim I model my style after (if I even have such a thing in these early stages), but if I had to choose whose style I'd most like to assimilate I'd have to choose a combination between the aforementioned three Haha Just wait for my next story. It's about a group of farmers who wake up one morning to find themselves transformed into verminous farm animals. These animals stage a closed-curtain revolt against Bigger Brother, all the while dealing with their own demons and the loss of their mother. The whole thing would be written in stream of consciousness, too, while we're at it Hurrah for my lame jokes!

Oopgrub

Well, i'd say Stephen King, for his great, prolonged descriptive detail, and great horror filled books. R.A. Salvatore for his brilliant Characters and character development, and Edgar Allen Poe, for his awsome ways of letting you see through the eyes of a mad man.

I find I write like all of them combined.

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Zachary Glass

Main Influence and motivation to be a writer: J D SALINGER

BIG influence: MICHAEL CHABON

Naguib Mahfouz
Bohumil Hrabal
Jack Kerouac
John Kennedy Toole

And many many more. I think I find influences whenever I read a book that I absolutely love.

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ShamSham04

My greatest influence is Stephen King.

The man is a genius when it comes to horror fiction. He never fails to satisfy his fans with brutality, descriptive detail, and tremendous character development. His earlier works are some of the best novels ever written, and those novels have gained all of my respect for him.

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Zachary Glass

The thing I like the most about Stephen King are his beautifully, fully realized characters. People don't give him enough credit...I've even heard people call him a hack. Which is just ridiculous...his characters are brilliant.

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Pawn

Poetically - Byron, Larkin, Keats, Shelly, Whitman, Neruda, Auden, Wilde.
Playwriting - Pinter, Wilde.
Wider writing - Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Adams, Asimov, Fitzgerald, the ubiquitous Tolkien and numerous other fantasy authors.

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Blackdragonhide

C.S Lewis ~
A young publisher author.
Christopher Paolini ~
A modern-day of the above.
Phillip Pullman ~
For his outstanding amount of determination and skill.

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Lily

I can't remember if I put Orson Scott Card or Madeline L'Engle . . . I know I'm forgetting a few right now, but oh well.

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I enjoy reading Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.Emerson's Essays:First and Second Series Essays are so inspirational. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is excellent.

I love Ernest Hemingway's descriptions. They are so vivid and colorful.

As far as poetry, I love Rumi, Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, and Shakspeare.

sully474

I like to write in more of a comedic style, so some of my influences are my stepdad, who has done some really crazy stuff. (One time he and some friends padlocked a drive thru window shut)

Also Gordon Korman, because he writes books that have very funny parts in them, but also carry an excellent storyline.

Charles Dickens would probably be my last one, because I love the way that he talks about people and situations. I have tried to imitate his stylings before.

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The Tao Of Spike

Right now: Douglas Adams and J.D. Salinger. But, it changes a lot depending on what I like about who I'm reading.

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WiCkEd

I have to say John Saul was somewhat of an influence, however I don't really write horror. Others include: Lawerence Block, R.A. Salvatore, and I suppose even Stephen King. There are others that for some damn reason have slipped my mind.

Gordash

Hidaeki Anno is a major influence for my characters. Robert Jordan is for my actual plot.

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