What Book Made You Want to Be A Writer?

Books aren't the reason I started writing. My friends are. But I didn't want to actually become a real author until after I read the Twilight series and started enjoying reading for the first time.

When I was about 9, I read this cheesy Fantasy series for kids called Deltora Quest. I haven't thought about it for a while, but I remember thinking how I wanted to write stories like that.
/nerd

Of course, I just Google'd it and..
They made it into an anime in the past 9 years when I wasn't looking. mychildhood...why. ..

Mine was Twilight. xP Though I've regretted picking up the disappointing saga, I wouldn't be writing today if I hadn't discovered the series.

A Series of Unforunate Events... I just loving reading the series over and over again... even though it gets boring...

Anything by Laurie Halse Anderson

Reading books in general as a kid made me want to become a writer.

For me it was the Chronicles of Narnia, my sister had to read them for college but instead paid me to do it and summerize it for her lol
i fell in love with the series the moment I started :)

a few things.

harry potter, of course. its cliched, i know, but still.

kingdom hearts. just the epicness of the series inspired me. and pretty much every squareenix game ever made.

naruto. need i say more?

and, of course, lord of the rings. the world....so immersive...sniff sniff.

a few things.

harry potter, of course. its cliched, i know, but still.

kingdom hearts. just the epicness of the series inspired me. and pretty much every squareenix game ever made.

naruto. need i say more?

and, of course, lord of the rings. the world....so immersive...sniff sniff.

Harry Potter, actually. Because J.K. Rowling is really rich and I was a really materialistic kid. And HP seemed so easy to write. I figured I could write a couple of books like HP, get rich and then travel the world and lead a fabulous life.

Originally, it was Oscar Wilde's fairytales.

Then "The Hitchhiker's Gude to the Universe" by Douglas Adam. And then "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter".

Every fantasy book I've read that I've adored (and that's a long list).

I just want to create a world like that, a world where people can escape to & go on wondrous adventures where the impossible happens, where strange creatures lurk at night. A place of imagination; to find solitude & inspiration there...like I have & still do.

For me, it was actually Disney movies, no books. I wanted to create worlds like that.

i have always wanted to be a writer.

but i never became really ambitious until i read harry potter. because i just loved the idea of a world inside your head.

so when i was about 9.

no books, just my overactive imagination.

I always had an overactive imagination, but I actually started writing in 5th grade, when I picked up my first Stephen King book. His horror novels got me going but his Dark Tower series truly inspired me. It was so vast, even back then when only the first 4 books were finished, that it set my imagination wild. The world of the Dark Tower, the thought of there being so many worlds, all interconnected, blew my mind and made me wonder, What else could there be? And since then I've traveled to plenty of different, interesting worlds in my imagination, and I may be the most restless person I'll ever meet. So yeah. The Dark Tower series.

Even though i had written before and liked writing for awhile J.K. Rowling/some manga sealed it for me as well as other truths about writing. The adventures, action, characters, emotions etc. Overall i liked the idea of having my world be shown to an audience, also because when you're an Author you are god.

No book alone made me want to become a writer, but I found a huge inspiration in Harry Potter, for sure.

Jodi Picoult novels.
Vanishing Acts and The Tenth Circle in particular.
I've wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, but those two really did it.

Harry Potter probably.
I liked the idea that by using just words you could create a dreamworld that others could take place in too.