my teachers

"Tell me. Who are your teachers? ... who are your masters?"

~David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

writers whose voices i've fallen in love with that i will read anything they write, no questions asked, even if it's just their grocery list, and (this is applicable only to the dead ones), even if it's from the grave (especially if it's from the grave):

david foster wallace

jasper fforde

david mitchell

t.c. boyle

gabriel garcia marquez

jack kerouac

charles bukowski

joan didion

teddy wayne

david levithan

sarah dessen

j.d. salinger

jane austen

anthony burgess

joseph heller

james joyce

mark z. danielewski