Garth Nix Quotes

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others - that it would take a page or two to list them all.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.