Sandra Cisneros, Pat Conroy, John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou and Tom Waits (he's a poet/storyteller first as far as I'm concerned). The way those people use words quite literally will stop me, I will catch my breath, my heart will almost stutter and I am frozen in the moments they create...with words.
Neil Gaiman is my inspiration. I don't know if it's his British selection of words, but damn that guy can put a sentence together.
Sandra Cisneros, Pat Conroy, John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou and Tom Waits (he's a poet/storyteller first as far as I'm concerned). The way those people use words quite literally will stop me, I will catch my breath, my heart will almost stutter and I am frozen in the moments they create...with words.