Xenophon
Mike Lackey
Reader's Digest editors
W. Somerset Maugham
Albert Camus
the writers of The Daily Show
David Bedford
Jonathan Rosenbaum
T. H. White
T.S. Eliot
Kevin Smith
Keri Arthur
Anton Chekhov
Robert Bloch
Jeff Smith
Yasmine Galenorn
Randal L. Schwartz
Salman Rushdie
Richard Linklater
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Marjane Satrapi
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Robert McKee
Tom Clancy
Ken Kesey
Judd Winick
Michael Cunningham
Aristophanes
Clive Cussler
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Confucius
Ellen Datlow
Jennifer Stafford
Madeleine L'Engle
Thomas Harris
Gail Z Martin
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Sergei Eisenstein
Christopher Moore
Stan Nicholls
Tracy Hickman
James Peterson
Frank Frazetta
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Susanna Clarke
Giovanni Boccaccio
Rick Berry
Maya Angelou
Ron Lim
H.G. Wells
Stephen Mitchell
Flannery O'Connor
Milton Caniff
Edward Gorey
Winston Groom
John Rechy
Eric Bogosian
Lao Tzu