Quotes About Influence

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.

If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the 70s to the mid-80s. I was very influenced by futurism and reading a lot of Marge Piercy.