Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.
Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.