Books, Quotes...That Influences/Changed the Way You Write

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There By Lewis Carroll

Vampire Chronicles by Mrs. Anne Rice

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Always and forever. :cute:

The mibba authors saint gut-free and paper bag. changed how I write.
I read their work and just craved to be as good as they were.
Reading their stories taught me to open my mind alot.

I often take inspiration from lines of poetry and lyrics.

The poem "My First Affair With That Older Woman" by Charles Bukowski made me cry, nearly. And then it made me want to write.

The song Mary Ann by Regina Spektor always gives me a huge rush of ideas.

"Miss Mary Ann kept her cans in alphabetical order,
Miss Mary Ann began to have some thoughts of murder,
Miss Mary Ann began to think real hard about her future,
Miss Mary Ann liked her meat freshly butchered,
She killed him rather quickly
That woman was truly sickly
But lord not any sicker than accordng to plan
Like a soldier with one foot in front of the other"

I'm like a sponge; what I see is what I know. So, other than the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, there's books such as the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber, the House Of Night series by P.C. and Kristen Cast, and the Blue Is For Nightmares series by Laurie F. Stolarz.

Mrs. Meyer has a great, almost unreal connection to the English language, as well as English grammar, so I get most of my big words from her! Scott Westerfeld writes about adventure in a supernatural sense (and I don't only read his Uglies books, but also his Midnighers series which are also really good!), and so some of the events in my supernatural stories are based off of events in his books. Ellen Schreiber's books are fun and youthful, so I usually base my original series (when I do get around to writing one) or some of my stories about teens off of things that Raven and Alexander have to go through (this rule also goes for P.C. and Kristen Cast's five books)! Laurie Stolarz has wicca, love, and thrills all wrapped into what's about to be five books. Yeah, she's got a lot to offer to an aspiring writer!

The Paigels.:

I'm like a sponge; what I see is what I know. So, other than the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, there's books such as the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber, the House Of Night series by P.C. and Kristen Cast, and the Blue Is For Nightmares series by Laurie F. Stolarz.

Mrs. Meyer has a great, almost unreal connection to the English language, as well as English grammar, so I get most of my big words from her! Scott Westerfeld writes about adventure in a supernatural sense (and I don't only read his Uglies books, but also his Midnighers series which are also really good!), and so some of the events in my supernatural stories are based off of events in his books. Ellen Schreiber's books are fun and youthful, so I usually base my original series (when I do get around to writing one) or some of my stories about teens off of things that Raven and Alexander have to go through (this rule also goes for P.C. and Kristen Cast's five books)! Laurie Stolarz has wicca, love, and thrills all wrapped into what's about to be five books. Yeah, she's got a lot to offer to an aspiring writer!

I agree with you on the Twilight. I hated the story itself but it was written just...:cheese:! Changed my style and descriptions like crazy.

Oddly, Twilight never really inspired me to write. I liked to read it, but other than that, there wasn't really anything.
However, Ellen Hopkins, the author of Crank, Impulse, Burned, and a few others;
she inspired me insanely.

They're all verse novels, but they're decently thick, and pretty inspiring.
:roll:

I'm sure I've said it before, but Francesca Lia Block has inspired me more than any other writer. Everything she write has a pulse, it breathes, it lives. You can smell it, you can taste it. She doesn't use a lot of big words. She describes things in a way that is... impossible to describe.

She knows where the heart is in a piece of paper and she stabs it with her pen so you can read the ink.

"Well Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few books in my time to know what I was about and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about nonexistant people, figments of the imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonficition, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost."
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

It not only changed the way I write, but the way I read. The entire book has influenced me so much. The fact it revolves around the importance of literature and how... idiotic censorship can be is something that I think every writer can connect to. It's something everyone should read.

Basically all of the ...theories, I suppose, put forward by Palahniuk in Fight Club.

Everything he writes, he puts so many of them into and it really makes me think, and it influences the way I write my own stories now.

^Bradbury himself said that Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship/totalitarism, but rather the effect that the mass media (radio and TV in particular) has on us.

I had this "I can write tragedy" phase after I read Fitzgerald and Madame Bovary. Thank God that's over, because I really can't.

I'd kill for Neil Gaiman's imagination.
I don't know where he gets all that stuff.
It's just :cheese:.

He inspired some of my descriptions and plot devices, and he showed me that endings can just be endings-- not tragic or happy. He wrote real life in the perspective of fantasy, and he blends the two together so well.

It's like... he's writing about real life scenarios, but he involves some other element that just leaves me awestruck because of his creativity. I admire him so much.

Reading James O'Barr's The Crow really changed my vocabulary/word usage. Since then, my wording has been less reatarded and more...darkly descriptive?

I'unno.

That one graphic novel just kinda changed the way I look at things.

The Way:

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I'd kill for Neil Gaiman's imagination.
I don't know where he gets all that stuff.
It's just :cheese:.

He inspired some of my descriptions and plot devices, and he showed me that endings can just be endings-- not tragic or happy. He wrote real life in the perspective of fantasy, and he blends the two together so well.

It's like... he's writing about real life scenarios, but he involves some other element that just leaves me awestruck because of his creativity. I admire him so much.

Neil for me too.

And also Douglas Adams.

And you can tell in Neil's writing that he's been influenced by Adams too. :tehe:

saint gut-free.:

Everything he writes, he puts so many of them into and it really makes me think, and it influences the way I write my own stories now.

I find Palahniuk's writing incredibly influential as well. He is an artist with a pen.

Steel Tide.:

Reading James O'Barr's The Crow really changed my vocabulary/word usage. Since then, my wording has been less reatarded and more...darkly descriptive?

I'unno.

That one graphic novel just kinda changed the way I look at things.

I've never read it [even though I'm saving up for it right now] but if the movie version is even remotely close to the book, then I totally agree. Watching that movie has [oddly] helped me with writing some of the darker things.

Again, not an author, book or quote, but Ville Valo's writing has influenced me a hell of a lot. The descriptions he uses in his lyrics, and the metaphors and everything. Since I've been listening to his music, I think my writing has improved in some way, particularly in those areas. It's just... something about the way he words everything, the way he manages to express everything he's trying to say without putting it out with a neon sign, it's amazing.

:shifty

Comics can really influence the way I write. Like with The Sandman, The Umbrella Academy, Watchmen, and many others. They just have this element that you can't find in books, and somehow it just shapes my writing style. I can't even explain it myself fully.

Also, a few musicians have changed the way I write, but Alan Jackson is probably the greatest. His songs about simple emotions and the workings of human lives really helped me to get down under the surface, trying to bring those across.

I have never read that book but is sounds like it would be good from the bit you posted. A lot of things influence my writing. Music is a big one. My best writing comes out when I am listening to all kinds of music. Walking around alone can make me think of things for my stories. My personal experiences have a lot to do with the tone of my writing and how the character is. That's all I can think of. Haha.

kryptonite. She really changed my writing and helped it improve. I'm not fantastic at writing, not at all, but I have a much better grasp on it now. Mibba helped me way more than any English teacher ever did with my grammar and punctuation.