Who do you write like?

I was going through old threads from around this time last year. Found an interesting one about who do you write like. You can't bring up a topic more than 180 days old so...... bringing it up again.

http://iwl.me/

My writings were reminiscent of these writers:

Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut
L. Frank Baum
Daniel Defoe
H. P. Hovercraft
Arthur Clarke
David Foster Wallace

I am honored to even remotely be put in any of the above categories. Who do you write like?

My inspiration has come from Bob Dylan , Khalil Gibran. CS Lewis , and Thomas Merton , but I know I fall short of writing like them :)

My inspiration definitely differed from whom it said my writings were like

I submitted one of my latest poem posted here and this is my review

I write like
Bram Stoker...lol

Self Centered Silence (1)
by Michael D Nalley
at 2015-12-05

Depending on the poem I pasted, I came up with:

H.P. Lovecraft 1
David Foster Wallace 2
Arthur Clarke 3
James Joyce 1
Margaret Atwood 1
Arthur Conan Doyle 1

With all my poems it came up with William Shakespear

Gosh, im not really sure. I know I like the poems of
John Cooper Clarke

Mike check out the first post you'll see the link to check who you write like

Wow, submitted, "You can't hurt me"...it said david foster wallace

submitted "the colors of humanity" and it said William Shakespeare.......whoa.....

David Foster Wallace... I did a brief wiki of him, I can't think of who he is? I don't have the time to read it right now.

James Joyce, apparently - can't argue with that!

Okay, I pasted 5 poems, all different styles:

Anne Rice
Chuck Palahniuk
David Foster Wallace
James Joyce
and my favourite, you may have heard of him,
William Shakespeare

Gertrude Stein... looking her up now!

Found an article from the New Yorker commenting that her style was "faux-naif" - meaning "marked by a pretense of innocence or simplicity" Hmm... intriguing!

Pretty interesting stuff huh?