I am a veracious reader of books, articles, and blogs. I love to soak up information. Through the broad medium of literature, I have found a great many people who inspire me. Some of them I could say I agree with and others I have nothing in common with at all. What inspires me about people I agree with is their dedication to their beliefs and their pursuit of the truth, whether in real life or inside their fiction. What inspires me about people I don't agree with is their dedication to their beliefs and their pursuit of the truth. Inspiration, for me, can come from unlikely and unsettling places. You'll notice some of these people are polar opposites. If you know me, you know my faith and my politics, so you can surmise who in the list I do and don't agree with on a personal level. Forget that for a second and try to understand why they are influential in a general sense....
Flannery O'Conner
CS Lewis
Donald Miller
Johnny Cash
Emma Goldman
Ernest Hemingway
Cormack MCarthy
David Foster Wallace
Stephen King
JRR Tolkien
Sylvia Plath
Micheal Crighton
Claudio Sanchez
Kim Neely
Mickey Spillane
Dee Brown
Ray Bradbury
Steve Earle
Tolstoy
Herman Melville
Jonathan Franzen
Karl Marx
Joseph Conrad
John Cheever
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