If you tell me that my writing is bad, then what I hear is my writing isn't for you. 

I will list off some of my creative inspirations. If you like the creatives I list off then maybe my books are for you. If you don't then I am not trying to convince you that you should read my stuff. The same way you don't care about me; I don't care about you :)

Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, Italo Calvino, Haruki Murakami, Thoreu, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Migues Cervantes, Paul Auster, & Willliam Faulkner. 

I like plenty of other writers as well, but these are the writers I turn to when I need to rediscover my voice. It is in their stories and poetry where I initially found echoes of style and ideals that helped me develop this medium of expression.