That, and classical French theatre, were his two great influences.
Carey says his great influences are Joyce, Faulkner and Beckett.
'My great influences were [the painter and novelist] Denton Welch and Somerset Maugham,' he told me.
"We're trying to find out who the great influences were," he said.
In those days, Bloch, Berg, Prokofiev, Sibelius were modern and great influences.
By 1962, Miller concluded that "Swami Vivekananda remains for me one of the great influences in my life".
She was no Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, or Gloria Naylor — my favorites and great influences, because I wanted to be a black woman writer.
You could say Gandhi was one of the great influences of 20th-century political movement, yet what he wanted to happen in India didn't happen.
"He'll be a massive loss, everyone knows that," added Toner, who listed O'Connell as was one of the two great influences on his career.
"When I was a boy growing up in Queens, one of the great influences on my life was my Aunt Shirley, who loved best-selling books," Mr. Weinstein said.
"When I was a boy growing up in Queens, one of the great influences in my life was my Aunt Shirley, who loved best-selling books," he said in an interview with The New York Times three years ago.
