Is there one book that has had an impact on not only your writing, but on you personally?
"When I was very young my grandma used to read me stories. My favorite was Winnie the Pooh…the one where he eats all the honey and gets stuck in Rabbit’s hole. Well, my grandma stopped reading one day and I just kept going where she’d left off. I was about four. I’d memorized the whole book. I remember realizing people wrote those books and wanting to be one of those people." - Leah Clifford, author of A Touch Mortal.
"A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean has had the biggest impact on my writing and on me personally because that book contains so many universal truths about people, relationships, our failings, and our successes." - Daisy Whitney, author of The Mockingbirds.
"Wake by Lisa McMann. I was toward the end of The Mark’s revisions - my editor had asked me to speed pacing and trim the fat and I thought I was doing what she wanted. Then I read Wake. Lisa McMann’s prose is so tight and the storytelling so focused…I loved the book and, more than that, I finally got it that if a word or passage or dialogue can be cut with no measurable impact on the story, it should be." - Jen Nadol, author of The Mark. 
"Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. It's funny and it will hurt your brain every single time you read it. The mark of great book is that you see different things each time you read it. Not because the book is different of course, but because you are." - Jon Skovron, author of Struts & Frets.
