The writers listed below, in no particular order, deserve much of the blame for inspiring me to do what I do:
Daniil Kharms, China Miéville, Samuel Beckett, Kelly Link, Noah Cicero, Dougal Dixon, John Wyndham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Hemingway, Sam Pink, Sapphire, Franz Kafka, Alan Moore, Russell Edson, Grace Krilanovich, Nathanael West, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, Raymond Carver, Douglas Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Jasper Fforde, Dalton Trumbo, Upton Sinclair, Italo Calvino, Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Albert Camus, Cormac McCarthy, Donald Barthelme, Nikolai Gogol, and E.M. Forster.
Daniil Kharms, China Miéville, Samuel Beckett, Kelly Link, Noah Cicero, Dougal Dixon, John Wyndham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Hemingway, Sam Pink, Sapphire, Franz Kafka, Alan Moore, Russell Edson, Grace Krilanovich, Nathanael West, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, Raymond Carver, Douglas Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Jasper Fforde, Dalton Trumbo, Upton Sinclair, Italo Calvino, Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Albert Camus, Cormac McCarthy, Donald Barthelme, Nikolai Gogol, and E.M. Forster.