Writers: Who is your most influential writer?
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OfficialFerdinand — 15 years ago(April 08, 2011 09:25 AM)
Whose work do you find most inspiring?
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crothman — 14 years ago(April 21, 2011 08:46 AM)
John Barth
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Strelnikoff — 14 years ago(April 27, 2011 10:39 AM)
In terms of understanding writing structure? Mikhail Bakhtin.
In terms of just an author I feel I can emulate in my own small way? Spalding Gray.
Writer I most admire overall? Dostoevsky.
Writer I'm most daunted by? Pynchon.
Favorite novel? 'The Magic Mountain' (Thomas Mann).
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surfercharlie25 — 14 years ago(May 04, 2011 06:07 PM)
Screenwriters:
Alvin Sargent
Robert Towne (mostly because of CHINATOWN, a masterwork by any standard)
Leigh Brackett
Billy Wilder
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
William Goldman
Paddy Chayefsky
Novelists/Non-fiction writers:
Norman Mailer
Walt Whitman
Hunter S. Thompson
Gore Vidal
Jack Kerouac
John Steinbeck
Thomas Pynchon
Raymond Chandler
Stephen King
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delriosong — 14 years ago(May 10, 2011 05:57 PM)
With 836 writing credits currently listed on IMDbWilliam Shakespeare!
And I,like one lost in a thorny wood,
That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
Seeking a way and straying from the way;
Not knowing how to find the open air,
But toiling desperately to find it out,
Torment myself to catch the English crown:
And from that torment I will free myself,
Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.
Henry VI, Part 3 Act III sc ii
I've lived upon the edge of chance for 20 years or more
Del Rio's Song