Writers Only-Which Modern Writers have inspired your own work?

Question

I count many influences, but mainly: Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Lieber and Roger Zelazny, with a twist of Lovecraft, a dash of Poe and a smidgen of John Cleese and Eric Idle. Who are your influences?

Answer 1

Mine has been influenced by many writers, but mainly these authors.
The horror of Stephen King
The macabre of Edgar Allan Poe
The mystery of Jeffery Deaver
The revolt of Thomas Harris
The style of Stef Penney

I have my very own unique style (otherwise i wouldn't be a writer), but an quarterly amount has the ingredients of these few authors. And i thank them.

Answer 2

Anne Tyler, Caprice Crane, Caren Lissner, Eugenie Olson, Linda Lenhoff, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper, Karen Brichoux, Lisa Tucker, Joshilyn Jackson, Kaye Gibbons, to name a few.

Answer 3

I would have to say that I am inspired most by blunt sarcasm, satire, and authors who deal with tabu subjects in a humorous light such as John Irving and Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

I also gather some elements from my writing from the grotesque in southern American literature. Writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Mark Twain really get my creative juices flowing.

Answer 4

Gabriel García Marquez and I don't know if you could count Orwell and Huxley as modern but I would also count them; in some lesser point I would count Anne Rice and a little of Lovecraft when I am trying to produce a little suspence

Also some narrative of Camus and a little absurdism of Terry Pratchett