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Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

Whose work do you find most inspiring?

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Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

John Barth
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Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

In terms of understanding writing structure? Mikhail Bakhtin.

In terms of just an author I feel I can emulate in my own small way? Spalding Gray.

Writer I most admire overall? Dostoevsky.

Writer I'm most daunted by? Pynchon.

Favorite novel? 'The Magic Mountain' (Thomas Mann).


"God rot all 'good men'...."

Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

Screenwriters:

Alvin Sargent
Robert Towne (mostly because of CHINATOWN, a masterwork by any standard)
Leigh Brackett
Billy Wilder
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
William Goldman
Paddy Chayefsky

Novelists/Non-fiction writers:

Norman Mailer
Walt Whitman
Hunter S. Thompson
Gore Vidal
Jack Kerouac
John Steinbeck
Thomas Pynchon
Raymond Chandler
Stephen King


"...and you can't come because you DON'T SPEAK FRENCH!"

Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

With 836 writing credits currently listed on IMDb...William Shakespeare!



And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,
That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
Seeking a way and straying from the way;
Not knowing how to find the open air,
But toiling desperately to find it out,--
Torment myself to catch the English crown:
And from that torment I will free myself,
Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.

Henry VI, Part 3 Act III sc ii



I've lived upon the edge of chance for 20 years or more...
Del Rio's Song

Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

Screenwriters:

-Quentin Tarantino
-Oliver Stone
-John Hughes
-Kevin Smith
-James Cameron

Writers:

-Stephen King
-Hunter S Thompson
-Anthony Burgess

Re: Writers: Who is your most influential writer?

Wes Craven

Volker Flenske: (While torturing David) I don't know why you're doing this to yourself!
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