Literary Influences Quotes

#1. Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Jeff VanderMeer

#2. I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Manuel Puig

#3. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#4. Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

T. S. Eliot

#5. I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

Xavier Dolan

#6. I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.

Larry Miller

#7. He reminds me of someone I used to know. One sharp breath and I'm shocked back to reality. No more daydreams. "Why are you here?" I ask the cracks in the concrete wall. 14 cracks in 4 walls a thousand shades of gray.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

Greta Salpeter

#9. And he is enchanted by the beauty of small things: hot coffee, wind through an open window, the tapping of rain, a passing bicycle, the desolation of snow on a winter's day.

Simon Van Booy

#10. Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Giles Foden

#11. The reality of intelligent British speech ... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Stephen Fry

#12. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe