Since as long as i can remember I have always had a story or poem writing itself in my head.
Some favourite books:
'His Dark Materials' by Philip Pullman, 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' by Douglas Adams , 'The Lord of the Rings' by Tolkien (not to mention the Hobbit, the Silmarillion etc) , 'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant, 'The Time Traveller's Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger - no other book or film has ever made me really, really cry, 'Everything is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer; 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver , Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' 'Jane Eyre', 'Wuthering Heights', 'The Butterfly Tattoo' by Phillip Pullman, Jane Austen's 'Emma' and 'Pride and Prejudice' , 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, '1984' and 'animal farm' by Orwell , 'Half of a Yellow Sun' and 'Purple Hibiscus' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'The Lovely Bones,' various discworld novels by Pratchett, particularly 'Reaper Man' , 'Tully,' by Paullina Simmons. Oscar Wilde. Dickens!!! (particularly 'Bleak House,' A.A.Milne,