“You CAN change the world! You CAN be Zorro!”
Stephen King may have been the author who inspired me to want to write; and James Joyce may have been the one to show me how much you could get away with as long as your audience remains willing to follow you there; and Sherman Alexie and Francesca Lia Block may have revealed potent poetry in simple words; but Harlan Ellison showed me how to shatter this world into a million bloody fragments with love, and that make him perhaps my biggest influence in art.
“A writer must go to bed angry and wake up in the morning angry.”
I may have taken that wisdom to extremes at times; there’s no question, though, that his sentiments galvanize me when all other methods fail.
Satyros Phil Brucato 