What writers inspire you?

I've always loved writing, even as a child, but I have been inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Jean M. Aeul (hope I spelled that right), Nora Roberts and Jan Caaran. I love all genres and am a voracious reader and have been writing fiction and journaling all my life. I also do some freelance article writing and things like that.

I am most inspired by J.K. Rowling, Martin Luther King, Susan Stempek Shay, and Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's a pretty diverse field. One activist writer and minister, two children's authors, and one more traditional literature person. Of course this is an incomplete list, it would take multiple days. This is just off the top of my head.

OMG I use to read Erma Bombeck all the time when I was much much younger..I still enjoy her stuff but havent read any in some time now.. As for writers who inspire me...I guess the only ones would be Lama Surya Das and Jamie Samms and even then its only mildly...I'm sure there are others but I couldnt really name them at this point in time..I've done SO MUCH reading over the yrs its hard to remember all of the authors ya know..

I never needed to be inspired to write. It's just something I have always done. It is my best way of expressing myself and I have improved my vocabulary and acquired my writing skills by reading, through studying, and by constant practice. I think many great writers have inspired my love of language, but it is the poets who have inspired me more than novelists. I have never wanted to be a writer of fiction. I have been writing for myself all my life. Some of my poems have appeared in print, but now I am a prose writer and I enjoy writing articles and assignments for websites.

No. I started trying to write before I could even really read. There was just something that drove me to try to scribble out stories (and, in those early days, I really do mean scribbled). My "earliest works" were done in crayon on tablet paper.