Scott Thompson
There are so many, and this would be like picking my favorite child, but there are a few that have stuck with me. A Walk Across America, by Peter Jenkins is probably my favorite non-fiction book. For fiction, maybe Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through it. Maclean was a poet first, and it shows in his novel.
I've been influenced as a writer, and as a person, by dozens or maybe even hundreds of books. Hemingway has influenced me. So has Fitzgerald. Kerouac always blows me away. Everything Marly Youmans writes is gold. I'll never write like her, but that's okay, because her writing comes from a place I'm not sure I'll ever reach. Ron Rash is another writer who has the ability to take a good story and turn it into poetry. Like I said, there are so many books and writers I love, and like my children, I love them for different reasons.
I've been influenced as a writer, and as a person, by dozens or maybe even hundreds of books. Hemingway has influenced me. So has Fitzgerald. Kerouac always blows me away. Everything Marly Youmans writes is gold. I'll never write like her, but that's okay, because her writing comes from a place I'm not sure I'll ever reach. Ron Rash is another writer who has the ability to take a good story and turn it into poetry. Like I said, there are so many books and writers I love, and like my children, I love them for different reasons.
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