Meme

[ailbhe]

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Alice Walker
Georgette Heyer
Terry Pratchett
e. e. cummings
Oscar Wilde
Emma Donoghue
Keri Hulme
Lois McMaster Bujold
Margaret Atwood
John Holt
Anne Enright
Gabrielle Palmer
Lauren Childs
Roald Dahl
Betty McDonald

... what a strange list.

Comments

[birke]

It is an interesting list, all right. :-)

This is a fun exercise in considering your influences, although having done it, I'm not sure it's the best method to use. Some authors' work is so ingrained that it doesn't even spring to mind when you sit down and think about it.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Grrr, I hate posts like this. Someone needs to disable my Amazon account! :P

[ailbhe]

I bought an Emma Donoghue book through Amazon once and they have been recommending lesbian porn ever since.

[(Anonymous)]

L.M Montgomery
Thomas Hardy
Sylvia Plath
Harper Lee
Margaret Atwood
Dr Seuss
Penelope Lively
Helen Dunmore
John Keats
Christina Rossetti
Dylan Thomas
Maya Angelou
Primo Levi
Anne Michaels
Enid Blyton -she got me reading in the first place!

[ailbhe]

Yes, I could have listed your first 7 too.

[(Anonymous)]

I could have mentioned Roald Dahl and C.S Lewis. I do like e.e cummings.

As a teenager J.D Salinger, George Orwell, Albert Camus and Jeanette Winterson influenced me and of course the classics like the Bronte sisters, Wilkie Collins and D.H Lawrence.

[ailbhe]

Heh, I totally forgot Winterson, in spite of the cover on the wall of the library behind me. I've still never read any Wilkie Collins and never liked any DH Lawrence.

Who *is* this?