Harper Lee, Hemingway, Dickens, J.K. Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and on and on and on. Too many to only pick one.
I have quite a few, but I love Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway. Also, John Green<3
Melody Carlson, Angela Hunt, and Karen Kingsbury.
I’ve got several, but I like (in no particular order) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Milan Kundera, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Heinlein, CS Lewis, Neal Shusterman, and Martin Luther.
Rob of the Sky
Since the first time I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1975, my favorite author has been J.R.R. Tolkien.
Hezekiah
ina garten. she’s a cook and writes cook books, so i don’t think you would actually call her an “author”??
I have more than one favorite author: S.E. Hinton, Diana Wynne Jones, Philip Pullman, Joseph Bruchac, Joan Lowery Nixon, Lois Duncan and more.
Edgar Allan Poe. I love reading his poetry and stories.
JK Rowling, Lisa Genova, Chevy Stevens.
me
but that’s cuz i’m buzzin’ right now.
Anne Rice, Anne Bishop, James Joyce, Chaucer.
j.d. salinger
Palahniuk
Stephen King hands down.
Michael Morpurgo author of The war Horse, Private Peaceful and many other wonderful books.
J.D. Salinger!
I don’t have one.
I rarely read books (the only books to my name are Gusiness World Records, Top Ten and those type of stats books)
When I was a child it was Roald Dahl and Dick King Smith.
Karl May, Anto Gardas, Ted Dekker, Lee Child
Stephen King, Stephen King, and Stephen King. Although, his son, Joe Hill (King) is coming along quite nicely.
The late Robert Jordan for his epic series The Wheel of Time and his protege, Brandon Sanderson who has the moxie to take the reigns and finish the series but is also an amazing writer in his own regard. That doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones or Tolkien for LoTR or R.A. Salvatore for beloved Drizzt. I love them all, but so much has to do with timing and I just have to say that RJ has meant the most to me over the last several years since I read his books with such reckless abandon.
I have to give honorable mentions to John Bellairs for his mystery books I read all the time as a kid and Norton Juster for The Phantom Tollbooth simply because it’s such a great story that I’ve held in such high regard even more as I’ve grown older. If comics count I also give mad props to Bill Watterson for Calvin & Hobbes and anyone who knows it needs no explanation.
Stephanie Meyer. Definitely.
Stephen Hawking, Philip Pullman, Richard Dawkins, Iain M. Banks and Al Gore.
Oh yummy boobie mints. Hubby say she likes. _______________ laptop2013
J.R.R. Toliken and Rowling. Both made a big impact on me.
Francis Schaeffer and Charles Colson
Douglas Adams
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Kurt Vonnegut
I have a writer’s crush on Miranda July
Stewart Woods
Kurt Vonnegut! Vonnegut all the way. All the way to the moon.
Jules Verne
Ellen Hopkins
Stephen King. Poe. Faulkner. Toni Morrison. Stephen King is most definitely my favorite.
Christopher Moore. He makes my life worth living when I accidentally forget my meds. lol
Stephen King’s friend: Dave Barry
Milton Love.
Dickens!
i’ve always really loved L.A. Meyer since i was about 12, but as for “adult” writers… i love Barbara Kingsolver and Alice Hoffman.
Heinlein… followed by Melanie Rawn, Patrica Wrede, and Phil and Kaja Foglio.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of writers, but these writers have changed my view of writing/life at some point, in their own way:
Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austin, The Brontes, Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Victor Hugo, Sylvia Plath, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Blaise Pascal, St. Athanasius, Alan Lightman, Francine Rivers, Donald Fairbairn, Corrie Ten Boom.
Of these writers, these works of theirs have impacted me: The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), All of J.D. Salinger’s writing (there is far too little), The Brother’s Karamazov (Dostoyevsky), Pride and Prejudice (Austin), Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (Brontes), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), All the Chronicles of Narnia, Till We Have Faces, The Space Trilogy (Lewis), Les Miserables the Unabridged Translation (Hugo), The Bell Jar, and all her poetry (Sylvia Plath), Phantastes, Diary of an Old Soul (George MacDonald), Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton), Christianity for Modern Pagans (Pascal), On the Incarnation (Athansius). Einstein’s Dreams (Alan Lightman), Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers), Life in the Trinity (Fairbairn). The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom).
Those are the ones off the top of my head. I know I included Plath’s poetry, but for sake of time I didn’t include all the poets who’ve changed my view of writing.
Kurt Vonnegut.
There are so many but if I had to narrow it down to just one…James Patterson.
too many to list …
Anton Lavey.
people stop me and ask me: Are you Stephen King? or Do you know who you look like? But I don’t care for his works for the most part–entertaining some of them. I like too many to have a favorite. I’ll say Frank Herbert since as numbers go, I probably more of his books altogether. I read all of his books–even before Dune. Although, Apostle John is maybe a best answer. Then again… you have a tough question today for me. Peace and Happy New Year wishes.
right now I’m reading Nelson Demille’s the Lion(an old book) but also I just finished Lee Child’s,also Michael Connely’s and I liked David Balduci’s all they’re newest books.
Probably the most honest work on grief by a Christian that I’ve ever read. No Bible-thumping, white-washed, stiff-upper-lip-ness there.
Joseph Conrad, H.P. Lovecraft
This is impossible to answer! I love to read & like many different genres! This is like asking which of my children is my favorite!!!
I LOVE Stephen King!! I guess if I had to pick one I’d say him!
Christopher Buckley or Mark Haddon.
Warren Ellis. Here’s a guy who encompasses just about everything I like in fiction. The man is practically a mad scientist when it comes to storytelling, properly laying eggs in your brain. I love his graphic novels, but I’m even more impressed with his first novel, Crooked Little Vein. I can’t wait for Gun Machine, which should be out some time in January. Too broke to pre-order it.
orson scott card
Diamond Jared is my favorite author — educational – insightful and mathematically correct in his hypothesis.
Neil Gaiman.
Banana Yoshimoto !
Robert A. Heinlein hands down. The grand master of classic science fiction. I wish more of his predictions about the future had come true, today’s world just didn’t live up to the bright future that could have been.
Tolkein, EG White, Terry Brooks, David and Leah Eddings,
Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was excellent. I wish I still had a copy of it.
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Shibram Chakraborty,
Harper Lee, Hemingway, Dickens, J.K. Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and on and on and on. Too many to only pick one.
I have quite a few, but I love Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway. Also, John Green<3
Melody Carlson, Angela Hunt, and Karen Kingsbury.
I’ve got several, but I like (in no particular order) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Milan Kundera, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Heinlein, CS Lewis, Neal Shusterman, and Martin Luther.
Rob of the Sky
Since the first time I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1975, my favorite author has been J.R.R. Tolkien.
Hezekiah
ina garten. she’s a cook and writes cook books, so i don’t think you would actually call her an “author”??
I have more than one favorite author: S.E. Hinton, Diana Wynne Jones, Philip Pullman, Joseph Bruchac, Joan Lowery Nixon, Lois Duncan and more.
Edgar Allan Poe. I love reading his poetry and stories.
JK Rowling, Lisa Genova, Chevy Stevens.
me
but that’s cuz i’m buzzin’ right now.
Anne Rice, Anne Bishop, James Joyce, Chaucer.
j.d. salinger
Palahniuk
Stephen King hands down.
Michael Morpurgo author of The war Horse, Private Peaceful and many other wonderful books.
J.D. Salinger!
I don’t have one.
I rarely read books (the only books to my name are Gusiness World Records, Top Ten and those type of stats books)
When I was a child it was Roald Dahl and Dick King Smith.
Karl May, Anto Gardas, Ted Dekker, Lee Child
Stephen King, Stephen King, and Stephen King. Although, his son, Joe Hill (King) is coming along quite nicely.
The late Robert Jordan for his epic series The Wheel of Time and his protege, Brandon Sanderson who has the moxie to take the reigns and finish the series but is also an amazing writer in his own regard. That doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones or Tolkien for LoTR or R.A. Salvatore for beloved Drizzt. I love them all, but so much has to do with timing and I just have to say that RJ has meant the most to me over the last several years since I read his books with such reckless abandon.
I have to give honorable mentions to John Bellairs for his mystery books I read all the time as a kid and Norton Juster for The Phantom Tollbooth simply because it’s such a great story that I’ve held in such high regard even more as I’ve grown older. If comics count I also give mad props to Bill Watterson for Calvin & Hobbes and anyone who knows it needs no explanation.
Stephanie Meyer. Definitely.
Stephen Hawking, Philip Pullman, Richard Dawkins, Iain M. Banks and Al Gore.
Oh yummy boobie mints. Hubby say she likes.
_______________
laptop2013
J.R.R. Toliken and Rowling. Both made a big impact on me.
Francis Schaeffer and Charles Colson
Douglas Adams
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Kurt Vonnegut
I have a writer’s crush on Miranda July
Stewart Woods
Kurt Vonnegut! Vonnegut all the way. All the way to the moon.
Jules Verne
Ellen Hopkins
Stephen King. Poe. Faulkner. Toni Morrison. Stephen King is most definitely my favorite.
Right now?
Stephen King and Lovecraft.
I like Barbara Wood as well.
I read the news and a lot of textbooks too.
@my_final_username - now I know what to read, so thank you!
Great post; thank you, too!
Jodi picoult
Christopher Moore. He makes my life worth living when I accidentally forget my meds. lol
Stephen King’s friend: Dave Barry
Milton Love.
Dickens!
i’ve always really loved L.A. Meyer since i was about 12, but as for “adult” writers… i love Barbara Kingsolver and Alice Hoffman.
Heinlein… followed by Melanie Rawn, Patrica Wrede, and Phil and Kaja Foglio.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of writers, but these writers have changed my view of writing/life at some point, in their own way:
Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austin, The Brontes, Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Victor Hugo, Sylvia Plath, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Blaise Pascal, St. Athanasius, Alan Lightman, Francine Rivers, Donald Fairbairn, Corrie Ten Boom.
Of these writers, these works of theirs have impacted me: The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), All of J.D. Salinger’s writing (there is far too little), The Brother’s Karamazov (Dostoyevsky), Pride and Prejudice (Austin), Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (Brontes), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), All the Chronicles of Narnia, Till We Have Faces, The Space Trilogy (Lewis), Les Miserables the Unabridged Translation (Hugo), The Bell Jar, and all her poetry (Sylvia Plath), Phantastes, Diary of an Old Soul (George MacDonald), Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton), Christianity for Modern Pagans (Pascal), On the Incarnation (Athansius). Einstein’s Dreams (Alan Lightman), Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers), Life in the Trinity (Fairbairn). The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom).
Those are the ones off the top of my head. I know I included Plath’s poetry, but for sake of time I didn’t include all the poets who’ve changed my view of writing.
Kurt Vonnegut.
There are so many but if I had to narrow it down to just one…James Patterson.
too many to list …
Anton Lavey.
people stop me and ask me: Are you Stephen King? or Do you know who you look like?
But I don’t care for his works for the most part–entertaining some of them. I like too many to have a favorite. I’ll say Frank Herbert since as numbers go, I probably more of his books altogether. I read all of his books–even before Dune. Although, Apostle John is maybe a best answer. Then again… you have a tough question today for me.
Peace and Happy New Year wishes.
@chaosandtranquility - Calvin and Hobbes is indeed sheer brilliance.
Terry Pratchett and Dean Koontz are two of my favorites. The blend of absurdity and philosophy is just what I need.
Barry Gifford.
Mark Twain.
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. I am a businessman so I am into this sorta shit.
I don’t have a favorite. I have a lot of preferred, though.
Margaret Atwood.
Al Camus
Ernest Hemingway.
I’m torn.
Somedays I think Hefner.
Other months, Larry Flynt wins.
It’s a vicious cycle. Can’t wait to see how the score changes in January.
@my_words_are_my_sanctuary - don’t be absurd..
right now I’m reading Nelson Demille’s the Lion(an old book) but also I just finished Lee Child’s,also Michael Connely’s and I liked David Balduci’s all they’re newest books.
@locomotiv - Brilliant.
I forgot!…A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis.
Probably the most honest work on grief by a Christian that I’ve ever read. No Bible-thumping, white-washed, stiff-upper-lip-ness there.
Joseph Conrad, H.P. Lovecraft
This is impossible to answer! I love to read & like many different genres! This is like asking which of my children is my favorite!!!
I LOVE Stephen King!! I guess if I had to pick one I’d say him!
Christopher Buckley or Mark Haddon.
Warren Ellis. Here’s a guy who encompasses just about everything I like in fiction. The man is practically a mad scientist when it comes to storytelling, properly laying eggs in your brain. I love his graphic novels, but I’m even more impressed with his first novel, Crooked Little Vein. I can’t wait for Gun Machine, which should be out some time in January. Too broke to pre-order it.
orson scott card
Diamond Jared is my favorite author — educational – insightful and mathematically correct in his hypothesis.
Neil Gaiman.
Banana Yoshimoto !
Robert A. Heinlein hands down. The grand master of classic science fiction. I wish more of his predictions about the future had come true, today’s world just didn’t live up to the bright future that could have been.
Tolkein, EG White, Terry Brooks, David and Leah Eddings,
Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was excellent. I wish I still had a copy of it.