Oh, cat, don't fly away again. My head's killing me.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets/playwrights included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Original rules talked about "tagging" others. The original rules of of Magic: the Gathering included ante cards. Things change.

1. Ted Geisel
   
2. Thornton Burgess
3. Samuel R Delany
4. Walt Whitman
5. Lawrence Durrell
6. James Branch Cabell
   
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. William Hope Hodgson
9. Raymond Chandler
10. Henrik Ibsen
    
11. Julian Jaynes
12. Gene Wolfe
13. Charles Dickens
14. Stephen Jay Gould
15. Tony Kushner

This is the order in which I fell in love with them. All guys! How about that.