Ten Writers Of Influence

[Ubu]

A shameful plagiarism from Facebook with a slight variation. 

List ten authors that have impacted you in some way or maybe just a line or two.  Not being too strict here. 

[Ubu]

1. Mark Twain
2. Dr. Seuss
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Joseph Heller
5. Greil Marcus
6. Charles Dickens
7. Woody Allen
8. George Carlin
9. Harper Lee
10. H.G. Wells

[d's girl]

Hafiz
Rumi
John Irving
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Andrew Wyeth (yes, there are wonderful quotes from this magnificent painter)
Nietzsche
Pablo Neruda
Stephen Dunn
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anna Akhmatova

[Quinn]

1. Carolyn Keene
2. Louisa May Alcott
3. Jules Verne
4. John Knowles
5. Harper Lee
6. Jack Finney
7. Khalil Gibran
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Oscar Wilde
10. George Bernard Shaw

[P.A.]

Mark Twain
H. G. Wells
William Shakespear
Louis L'Amour
> Jimmy Buffett, yes he writes books
John Jakes
James A. Miechner
Soren Keirkegaard
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson

How is that for a varied list

[Jaylee53]

Yeah, what you all said...:-}
..and a few more off the top of my hat:
Anne Frank
Ayn Rand
Upton Sinclair
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Miep Gies
Tennessee Williams
Elia Kazan