Name a book that turned you into a reader? A book that made you want to write?

1. Hands down, The Hobbit and The Harry Potter series made me fall in love with reading, because they served as an escape into two completely different, yet amazing worlds. I just love adventure, so I think Deathly Hallows was probably the best. It was very Lord of the Rings-esque as the trio got themselves out of some pretty interesting situations.

2. I don't have the most mature choice in literature because someone told me this book is for junior high kids, but I loved the Count of Monte Cristo, and for a time, it made me want to write a novel about revenge. It became suspiciously similar, and I scrapped it, but currently I am working on a short story, and a sort of high fantasy book without werewolves, vampires, wizards or elves. It is pretty original so far, and classical mythology has inspired me to write it. I studied the Greeks and Romans for 3 years of my life, just out of my own obsession, not at all school-related. Thanks for the great question.

Moni,

Mine started some time ago with The Talisman, Salem’s Lot, Interview with the Vampire, The Exorcist, Dracula and Frankenstein. These were all books I felt I could actually come up with something on my own if I tried. Today, people have been inspired by Twilight, Harry Potter, and a few others. They may be different stories and authors, but the inspiration to write is all the same.

PJ M

the first novel i read was the harry potter series too! i saw the movie and loved it (i was 8 by that time), so ask my dad if he could buy me the second book. it was a lot of effort (it was my first novel and there were a lot of words i didn't understand) but i made it, and since then i haven't stop reading.

j.k. rowling made me want to be a writer too! i really admired her (and i still do actually) and just wanted to grow up to be like her. i even made an assignment about her!! lol then i started to write short stories and things like that for fun

but the book that really made want to become a writer (a published and well-known writer) was eragon, when i found out christopher paolini started his novel when he was 15 i was really inspired!

and here i am now, with a bunch of story ideas and all the problems (and satisfactions) that any writer (or young writer in this case :D) carries... so that's my writing story! wish me luck for what the future provides me

Four magic words: "percentage of the gross". Not royalties or a percentage of the profits. Look up "Hollywood accounting" if you want to be outraged at how a movie can take hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and yet not show a profit. Apart from that, I'd try to get a veto over the studio's choice of director and (preferably) screenwriter. I wouldn't want full control over the screenplay or choice of actors or prop design or fiddly details like that. Movies are not books, and the two media are good at different things. A lot of things have to be cut out of a book to make it fit into two hours on screen. My book, specifically, doesn't give a lot of detail about some things you have to know for a movie, such as characters' appearance and clothing, so they'd have to be invented for the movie. I know a bit about film-making, but people who do it for a living obviously know far more than me, and as long as I felt able to trust the main people to be respectful towards the source material, I'd leave them to get on with it. EDIT: Kass Kass - not even J K Rowling got that much control over the movie adaptations of her books. The only way an author is going to achieve that degree of control is to finance the movie themselves. This isn't completely outside the realms of possibility - the technology available to the dedicated amateur today is, in some ways, better than what the professionals had 20 years ago. Your main problem then is going to be distribution - getting it to where people can see it. (And no, putting it on YouTube isn't the answer - not if you want to make money out of it. Well - if it gets really popular, YouTube will plaster adverts over it and give you a cut of the profits. But I'm guessing you wouldn't be happy about it earning money that way.)

Harry Potter were the books that made me love reading. As for writing, I would say Bran Hambrick?

I have no idea what turned me into a reader, since I have been reading since I was five years old. As far as a book that made me want to write, anything by Stephen King. Also the Twilight series made me want to write just to get something with substance out there.

The Harry Potter series did it for me, too. made me want to write? The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and the other 2 books in the trilogy, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

cool question!

I Read Percy Jackson when i was 10, and after i read that i really wanted to write, but when i tried i just stared at a blank piece of paper for 15 minutes, it is really hard to write a book so if you want to write you HAVE to have good ideas, Hope this helps

Yes, when i first started reading Harry Potter i just read the books over and over again because i think it makes me jelous because i want to write like that and I've just always read alot :)

The book that turned me into an avid reader was Crusade by Elizabeth Laird.

All I wanted was to read and read and read after that book.

The books that inspired me to write were Tolkien's "The lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit".

(Along with his poetry).