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Related I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust... AMY BLOOM My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and ... HILLARY CLINTON I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John U... CYNTHIA OZICK Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's ... ALAN CHEUSE When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ... FRANCES MAYES It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ... DAVID CASSIDY I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't unti... JAY MCINERNEY When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton Jo... CEELO GREEN I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... PAUL AUSTER I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing ... SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about ... VANILLA ICE Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in m... JINCY WILLETT I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ... CHARLES M. BLOW It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a ... STEVEN BRUST I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d... ARIJIT SINGH I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... KARL MARLANTES Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts ... BARRY UNSWORTH It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me. CHRIS HEMSWORTH I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... SAMANTHA MORTON I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me.... TED NAIFEH When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It was... KEKE PALMER I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something th... LAURA MVULA I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand h... CAROLINE THOMPSON I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen... EMILY PERKINS I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the class... KHALED HOSSEINI The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers... ELMORE LEONARD I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and s... CANDACE BUSHNELL Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the tab... OLIVIA WILDE I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because ... DANIEL PETRIE I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics. VIJAY After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in ... CHRIS PAVONE I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attracti... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike... LAURA LIPPMAN I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri... MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me.... ELISE ANDREW When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest. RAMON RODRIGUEZ I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy. ADAM LAMBERT You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids abo... LZ GRANDERSON I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. AMY WALDMAN I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though... GAYLE FORMAN My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I star... ROBIN ROBERTS Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense... ROBERT MORGAN People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to,... J. K. ROWLING 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little... JAMES ROLLINS I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ... COLIN FARRELL I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ... JO NESBO When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. CHARLES KURALT I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re... JUNOT DIAZ I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ... HILLARY CLINTON I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel... BARBARA GROSH There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, ... CHARLES SCHWAB It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish an... NEAL ASHER I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, whic... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy won... TORI SPELLING I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. Th... ALAN CHEUSE It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. '... GILBERT HERNANDEZ 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe... JAKE T. AUSTIN I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi... EARL WEAVER When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting. MAGGIE SMITH I always liked 'Green Lantern,' but I wasn't necessarily a diehard fan. I read stories h... CULLEN BUNN Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I... JOHN BOYNE Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn... EILEEN MYLES I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask ... MARK WAHLBERG I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew somethin... BARBARA CORCORAN I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ... NANCY PICKARD I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. EDDIE MARSAN I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled ... ANDREW O'HAGAN My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me. SAM DONALDSON It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started ... JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol... TED CHIANG I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in... JACK PRELUTSKY I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my ... GREG LAKE I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and... BRUCE GREENWOOD I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho... LYNN ABBEY I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... DAVID BOWIE I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. MARC CHERRY I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a... JAMES PATTERSON After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political e... JESMYN WARD Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become ... JOHN NOBLE I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd li... JANIS IAN When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'... JOHNNY GALECKI I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the sto... KATHY REICHS I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank... ANDRA DAY I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... HUNTER HAYES I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer... DEAN KAMEN John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it i... ROBERT KIYOSAKI
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