Influences

How could I NOT mention my favourite authors...this is by no means an exhaustive list. Some names might surprise you though...and others you may not have heard of.

Al-Ghazâlî
Alan Garner
Anaïs Nin
Bernard Malamud
Charles de Lint
Charles Dickens
Colette
Dan Simmons
David Gemmel
Dylan Thomas
Edward Said
Eric Van Lustbader
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Herbert
Franz Kafka
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garth Nix
George Orwell
Graham Greene
Guy de Mapassant
Hermann Hesse
Iain M. Banks
Italo Calvino

J. D. Salinger
J. R. R. Tolkien
James Joyce
Jan Siegel
Jhumpa Lahiri
John Clavells
John Keats
John Wyndham
Jonathon Lethem
Joseph Conrad
Kathy Reichs
Kazuo Ishiguro
Khalil Gibran
Knut Hamsun
Marcel Pagnol
Milan Kundera
Naguib Mahfouz
Noam Chomski
Orson Scott Card
Paul Auster
Paulo Coelho
Primo Levi
R. K. Narayan
Robert Silverberg
Robert Zelazny
Roger Zelazny
Roland Barthes
Satyajit Ray
Saul Bellow
Stephen Baxter
Susan Cooper
T. S. Eliot
Ursula K. Le Guin
V. S. Naipaul
Virginia Woolf
W. B. Yeats
William Carlos Williams

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