Anna's reply at LP.com

Here is Anna's reply at the "Favorite writers/writes who inspire you" topic:

Here are only a few of my current favorites:
David Almond, especially Skelling and Kit's Wilderness. I love the tone most about his work. How even the most simple and innocent description is done in a way to make you feel that something isn't quite right, but you can't put your finger on it.
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible for the way she is able to seamlessly tell the story in five distinct character voices, give five very different points of view.
Jerry Spinelli and Gary Soto for their ability to write incredibly powerful stories in beautiful simplicity.
Neil Gaiman for his bizarre creepy imagination.
As far as classic writers go, I was a huge fan of Shakespeare and read almost all of his works in high school (although I haven't picked him up recently).
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo were two of my all time favorites for great endings.
And Mary Shelley who created a monster that I felt fear and anger and hatred and... compassion for in her novel Frankenstein