What Book Made You Want to Be A Writer?

I used to free write all the time... just random little tid bits and stuff.
But in the 8th grade I fully realized I wanted to be a writter from read The Vampire Diaries the first and secound books.

Hm, I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was young, I think. I used to write these stories that where a bit too optimistic :)) Lol.

But I think Twilight inspired me, dunno really. =))

The Warriors series, by Erin Hunter. God, I loved those books.

Well... I started writing for my own pleasure in sixth grade and then in seventh grade I read the Twilight series, which really got me to like reading. I guess that doesn't really make it what inspired me to be a writer... but after I read it my writing was heavily influenced.

The Secret by: Lin Flores.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

I was inspired to be a writer by a book that has yet to be published. I've been following the author online for years now, and she's finally about to publish it. The book is called "A Vampires's Prisoner" and I read it way before things like "Twilight" and "The Vampire Diaries" and such came out. I'm can't wait for it to be on the shelves. :3

I don't think it was an exact book that made me want to be a writer. I've been making up stories and characters and stuff since before I even knew how to read or write, and at first it was just a hobby, but then when I was about thirteen or fourteen, I realized how much I really loved it and wanted to make a career out of it. Actually, if I'm being completely honest...it was fan-fiction that made me want to be serious about it. Which probably sounds stupid, I know, but I was reading some pretty good stuff online (back when Quizilla didn't suck), and it all totally inspired me, and that was when I knew that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Books definitely helped on that front, but it was never a specific one that made me have this huge epiphany or anything. :3

The first book I really truly read was Little Women, and in many ways that book began my love for both reading and writing. But I think that it was more my 6th grade English teacher (who told me I had a talent I didn't know of) that inspired me to pursue writing as a career. Sarah Dessen led me to want to write in the YA fiction genre

Films actually inspire me to write. Not screenplays either, books. It's probably because when I'm writing I see it like a film but the benefit of a novel is the intricate details you're allowed to divulge. So all the films I loved as a child are what started my obsession with film and as an almost-adult it's when I see amazing stories on film that I feel I want to tell a story as good as that. My favourite book is Trainspotting but the film inspires me to write more than the book.

This is going to sound crazy, but Twilight made me want to be a writer. I first read the book when it just came out, I think I was in the fifth grade, four years ago. I'd been writing before but that had been fanfiction quizilla junk and after Twilight came out, I read the book, despised what she had done with the vampires, and told my mom I was going to write a book about vampires and show Stephenie Meyer what a vampire should look like. I spent two years working on the book (needless to say it sucks).

Spider-Man comic books! I love 'em, that's how I learned to read too.

I don't think this really counts, but I think it was partially because of my friend's stories. She wrote and I would read her notebook stories, so one day I just sat down and started writing. No book made me want to be a writer- the fact that I wrote so much made me decide I should be a writer.

I cant really say it was a book that got me to write really, but the author's who got me interesting in writing was Stephen King and Ray Bradbury.

The Warriors series. I've been writing little things since I was about nine, never much more then 500 words at the very most, but then I read that and it just seemed to open so many doors. I suppose that Harry Potter had a very strong affect on my later writing style, but if you were to look at my really old, 4th/5th grade writing bits, you can see where I was influenced by those cat books

Enders Game- Orson Scott Card.
And subseqently, the spinoff novels.
Those book are just....they're amazing. I'd been told for so long that sci fi had to be just little green aliens and cliche stuff like that, and Enders Game made it quite obvious that it's not. Which was made me start to write down my ideas ,because I'd thought they were weird, genre-less things xP

Mine was probably "As I lay dying." Was first person narrative ever so confusing? Was something ever so elegant and stylistic? It's true I was writing before then but when I put that book down I looked at it, hard, and thought "Oh my god. Can I please just rewrite this novel and claim it as my own?" I found perfection and now I chase after it.

For me it was just a trend in school at the time of people writing stories! I thought I'd try it and I found I liked it so I carried on. I guess lots of the stories I've read have styled my way of writing though... :)

For me, it was probably the Warriors series. When I was about eight or nine, I was obsessed with those books. In the nerdy obsessive way, to top it off. I would reenact scenes from the book.
And after that, when I was a bit older, all the books by Tamora Pierce. Those are literally amazing books, I still love them. I can read them thousands of times and never get tired of them.

Short stories made me want to write, particularly those of Ambrose Bierce - 'An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge' and 'Chickamauga'

I strongly suggest these stories, they're haunting.