Authors…hmmm

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Ten authors who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first ten you can recall in no more than ten minutes. Tag at least ten friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your ten picks, and tag people in the note.)

This was sent to me by a few of my favorite people on Face book but as hard as I tried I thought too much about it.

Unpublished Poets that changed me with their written words that I have kept each piece in my special wooden box,

1. Braswell (eyes of blue and green declaring that they have love)
2. Stewart (she has to fly…)
3. Parker (blind us with you imagery)
4. Sugar (I love you)
5. Jay (thank you for teaching me the world is safe)

Published poets whose poems I love because I wanted to write just like them.

1. Emily Dickinson (I’m nobody who are you)
2. Ogden Nash (I never saw a purple cow…)
3. Robert Frost (I took the road less travel by…)
4. Max Ehrmann (Desiderata - you are a child of the universe)
5. Rudyard Kipling (And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!)

Song writers whose words were penned to music that changes me in so many different ways that sometimes I just can’t get them out of my head.

1. Queen (sail away sweet sister)
2. Queen (fat bottom girls)
3. Pink Floyd (comfortably numb)
4. ? (Disco duck)
5. Joan Biaz (forever young)

Screen Play written whose names I wish I knew: they sold there work so I can remember those quiet hours that mark different times of my life.

1. Forest Gump
2. Breakfast Club
3. Beloved
4. I am Sam
5. Aristocats

Fiction books that I just love and believe that everyone should read at least once. They will stay in you heart and forever, I promise just try to read them and then forget them.

1. Robert Munsch (I’ll love you forever)
2. Shel Silverstein (The giving Tree)
3. C.S. Lewis (Scewtape letters)
4. J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
5. Max Lucado (The crippled lamb)

The best Non Fiction author of all. I pick up his book almost everyday, think about him almost hourly. Only author who I love to attend book clubs about at least weekly, often more. Has he influence me more than I could ever explain. But go ahead and try me…we all know I am opinionated.

1. God (Song of Solomon)
2. God (Leviticus)
3. God (Luke)
4. God (Romans)
5. God (Obadiah)

I kept each list to five because unlike all the authors above I need to learn to edit myself a little, :0)