"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write."
My favorite authors are the dead guys of literary fiction: Graham Greene, Richard Yates, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis. I have to put Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis on the list.
These authors influence my writing. I have written seven novels. They are all free to read. Just ask for a copy.