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Book is tough. There were so many. But, looking back, I think it was a book of ghost stories. Can't remember if it was fiction or non-fiction, but I was 6 or so and found it in the school library. I was already interested in horror, but that told me how to write it and made me think I could write it. It was the first book I lost myself in that wasn't read to me by someone or recommended to me. I had already started dictating stories to my mum, so I was creating, but this solidified that concept in my head. Film, I don't think any actually impacted my life. But, to divert, music... Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon changed the way I looked at music. I didn't hear it until 1983, so I was 12, but straight away I got it. This one album told me that music was more than the pop and rock I heard on the radio or saw on TV. The lyrics were amazing and the music was so complex. But the lyrics were the thing. It changed the way I looked at writing. And then came the song 'Rock And Roll Dreams' by Jim Steinman. I knew this song from the time it was released (1981), but as a 12 year old, it spoke to me in a way that no other piece of art ever had... or ever has. This is my calming song. This has impacted me in ways that you would not believe or comprehend. Not in the way I write, just in the way I calm myself and keep myself as sane as I can. |
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