Influences

[curlyblue]

Which poets/writers have influenced or inspired you, or who are your favourite authors?
For me, Emily Dickinson is probably my favourite poet, and C.S Lewis is my favourite author. I love their writng styles.

 

[rosemerry]

Ray Bradbury and Meave Binchy. Also the tv shows Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, someone had to write those scripts.

 

[Blessed-one]

Robert Jordan for more focused descriptions, Steven Erikson and a couple of other animes, recently Mushishi. I'm still learning, finding out what my writing lacks through critique circles.

 

[oncewaslost]

any book i read. you can usually tell who's influencing me in each chapter of my novels. there's a slight change in writing style but not too noticeable. unfortunately, no one seems to want to give me a good critique. it's kind of annoying sometimes.

 

[teafortillerman]

Those authors that have such mastery over the english language what they compose is simple but demanding. Richard Bach, C.S. Lewis are terrific examples. Even Voltaire; the cynical ones are great too.

 

[Rose D.]

Charles Dickens is the author who has most influenced my writing style.

 

[Artemis]

I have the unfortunate tendency to write like whatever I'm reading at the time. Long-term influences have been Oscar Wilde (my favourite author) and Tim O'Brien (even though I only read one of his books).
The strange thing is, they're almost polar opposites. Wilde, who was a Gothic/Romantic writer, used very flowery diction, and Tim O'Brien, a modern-day writer, is nicely simple and casual. But I've wanted to become more proficient with mixing wit, intellect, and simplicity to create a somewhat casual atmosphere.
Someday.

~A

 

[Solomon Kane]

My influences are the pulp writers of the 20's and 30's. There intent was simple. Keep the action moving and don't get bogged down in details. only those details needed to explain events in the story, or added focus to the characters were added. These authors were writing mterial that had to either fit in the short story format or, could be broken down by chapters so that the story could fit over several issues of the magazine.

Among those, these are the writers that I still read, and consider influences:

Robert E. Howard
Howard Phillip Lovecraft
Clark Ashton Smith
Lester Dent
Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

I used to be influenced by whatever I was reading at the time, but by now, my style is pretty much my own. I don't copy anybody's style any longer, neither deliberately nor subconsciously.

As for influences in the broader sense, as in "authors who inspire me" or "authors whose style is just splendid": Zadie Smith (although my own style isn't comical, and my humour tends to be dry and black), Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Michel Faber, Virginia Woolf, Homer, Sergej Lukianenko, Alan Moore, Joss Whedon, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, John R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Galsan Tschinag and and and...

 

[thenewageriseth]

I would say that Marc Brown (Arthur series), Patricia Reilly Giff (Polk Street School series), Ann M. Martin (Baby-Sitters Club series), have influenced me so far. Now it's about to be Nicholas Sparks added to this list.
There were some African-American writers too. I think I should add Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to this list.