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I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.

— Charles McCarry

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

— P. J. Harvey

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.

— Jonathan Dee

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

— Ian Rankin

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

— Rhys Darby

William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.

— Jennifer Haigh

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

— Angel Olsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

— Paul Kane