P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.
My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.