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Author Topic: What inspires you to write?  (Read 1750 times)

Kagus

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Re: What inspires you to write?
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2009, 02:40:11 am »

I lost a LOT of faith in Stephen Kind after reading Desperation.  That really downed me, especially since he pulled in a character I really liked from Rose Madder and sprayed the same filth on her.

I think the main thing that draws me to Stephen King is just how he can describe the most mundane things in the most interesting ways...  He can fill pages talking about a flower vase, and you're begging to hear more of it.

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Re: What inspires you to write?
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2009, 02:50:13 am »

Stephen King = writing god. I never got over how creepy his concept of time travel was in the Langoliers, among other things.

Terry Pratchett on the other hand, is one of the quirkiest, funniest writers I've ever read. He makes me wish Douglas Adams wasn't dead.
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Re: What inspires you to write?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2009, 02:53:09 am »

I actually got bored after the second book in the Hitchhiker series.
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Re: What inspires you to write?
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2009, 02:55:01 am »

Did you manage to get your hands on the Dirk Gently stuff?

Oh, also:

Kurt Vonnegut rocks.
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Re: What inspires you to write?
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2009, 03:36:50 am »

Forgot about Kurt Vonnegut. Honestly though, I've only read Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse 5.
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