Which Famous Author do you Write like?!

[Lenita]

I write like C.S. Lewis.

[Michael]

This is the first I had heard about I Write Like online tool... way cool! According to the analysis, I got Dan Brown for book 1 and Arthur C. Clarke for the first few chapters of book 2.

[Groovy]

I write like me. I'm one of a kind:)

[Alex]

I prefer writing in 1st person. For the type of world I am creating. It is better to describe in first person. Check out If you private message me, I can send you an epub digital copy.

[Jim]

I realize that one's writing cannot help but be directly or indirectly influenced to some extent by the style of the authors whose books one reads. However, unless one is intentionally mimicking another's style, their writing is, for the most part, a reflection of their own unique personality, education, and taste.

[N.W.]

I got H.P. Lovecraft for my first book and James Joyce for my second. Never would have guessed either of them.

[Gabriel]

I've been told I write just like Gabriel Boutros. I know, I never heard of him either.

[Dennis]

Tom Clancy and Ernest Gann! (The first is to be expected, since I learned fiction writing from his novels -- the second is a big surprise, because I hadn't read any of his books until after I wrote my first one!)

[W.J.]

Hmm... not convinced this tool can really tell your writing style. Put in a paragraph from four different chapters of my current novel, and apparently I write like Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, William Gibson and Steven King. That can't be right, can it? Starting to worry I have a multiple personality disorder :-/

[Patricia]

Although I've always read and admired the novels by Mary Higgins Clark, I would never have considered comparing my books to hers until I got this review:

5-Star Amazon Review for “Mixed Messages”

"Fans of Mary Higgins Clark will greet this novel with enthusiasm. Like Clark in her early classic mystery/suspense novel A Stranger Is Watching, Gligor creates a frightening world for a sympathetic protagonist. Ann Kern, loving wife and mother, is surrounded by threats. Her husband, an alcoholic and a gambler, is emotionally unstable. There is also a serial killer on the prowl on the west side of Cincinnati and it appears that Ann is intended to be his next victim. There are a number of possible suspects. Author Gligor thoroughly develops each character in the novel, going into back stories, thoughts, behavior and actions. But this does not slow the plot which develops at a fast pace. Definitely a novel the reader will not put down until the final words are read."
Jacqueline Seewald, author of Death Legacy

[Angel]

None other.

[Gwyneth]

Apparently I write like David Foster Wallace. I had thought more A. A. Milne or Beatrix Potter.

[Christina]

HA James Joyce, who knew?

[Jonathan]

It appears there are only about a dozen authors in the database for this fun little web app. So, it's not very useful. I pasted individual chapters from my sci-fi novel and got this diverse result:
* Corey Doctorow
* H.P. Lovecraft
* Arthur Clarke

Let me rephrase that...it's not just not very useful, it's absolutely useLESS. But it's fun if you turn off your brain.

[Dennis]

Really? There's an app for this, too???

[Justin]

I've been told my poetry has inspirations of Edgar Allan Poe, E.E Cummmings and Emily Dickinson. My horror poetry usually has Poe like qualities as he was a big inspiration of mine. The other two are a surprise and I'd never realize it but it's nice to hear nonetheless.

[Martin]

The structure of my debut novel about a historical battle is based on that of The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara which is a wonderful telling of the Battle of Gettysburg, but the style and the way I use words is my own.

[F.J.]

Posting segments from my latest novel, I get Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov. Most pleased with the last one, though the only thing I've read from him (so far) was the novelization of Fantastic Voyage. And, I've never read the first two.

[Troy]

I would say someone like Dan Brown -- short and sweet chapters. :)

[Don]

Like a fast-paced Dashiell Hammett, from what I can discern from reviews on GR and Amazon.

[[deleted user]]

I got JK Rowling for my Harry Potter fic and Arthur Conan Doyle for my Sherlock one. So feeling pretty good about that.
My non-fanfic writing got me William Gibson.

[J M]

The famous authors I write similar to are Jack Higgins and Andy McNab.
Though I also have my own style. I write crime and terrorism thrillers.

[Groovy]

I write wholesome, passionate HEA romances, so my writing is compared to the romance authors of Harlequins (only mine are more entertaining I'd like to think:)

I also write clean suspense and I can only compare my style of writing to one person: me. (I'm one of a kind) YaaaY:)

[Lara]

Well, I put in a short story by Virigina Woolf (just to see) and was told she writes like George Orwell.

I then put in a piece by Hemingway and was told he writes like Pamuk.

Yup.

[V.W.]

I got Mary Shelly for an extract from my horror novel, and Arthur Clarke for one of my SF novels.

[K.D.]

I have been told that I write like Chuck Palahniuk. The "I Write Like" online tool says I write like Mario Puzo. While I am flattered by the comparisons, I have never read wither of them. Though I have thoroughly enjoyed the movies they have both inspired.

[Steven]

I've been told that I have shades of Larry McMurtry

[Philip]

Anonymous.

[Stephanie]

According to the website at the beginning of this post, the middle grade book I am writing is like James Fenimore Cooper and the adult fantasy novel I have finished and am trying to get published is like H.P. Lovecraft. Ironically, although I have heard of both, I have never read either. Very interesting. I guess I am going to have to get cracking at that To Be Read list a little quicker. (Although based on the above comments, I doubt I will find the comparison very accurate). :)

[Al]

I write like me.

BUT since I grew up a rabid Robert Heinlein fan (read everything of his that I could get my hands on), I'm sure he influences my subject matter and style. One reviewer claimed I write like him, but I still think I'm "me".

[Grace]

I got James Joyce, though I've never read his books so I can't really tell if that's at all accurate :)
Something about this way of analyzing though; the algorithm claims to work by looking at word choice and sentence structure. Something else to think about would be overarching themes, preferred character archetypes (stuff the program can't observe). I think we'd probably be quicker to recognize authors similar to us in those things. For me, at least, those are the things I tend to copy (ahem. I mean, find inspiration in...) while my word choices and such are more my own.

[Jennifer]

My mystery novels, the Moriston House Mystery Series, are in the tradition of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, with a splash of humor from P.G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde.

One of my novels was compared to Downton Abbey, so that would add Julian Fellowes to the list.

But ultimately, I like to make my work my own.

[Clay]

Since my book is made up of a bunch of narrators, I decided to try some sections from a few of them.

Harvey the world's greatest swordsman apparently sounds like Tolkien.
Galbraith the Wizard Sounds like Chuck Palahniuk
The Demon Lord Krevassius sounds like H.P. Lovecraft
Apparently the depressive, poetry loving, goth kitchen boy sounds like Gertrude Stein
and the valley girl, says "like" way too much girlfriend of the wizard sounds like William Shakespeare. So take all of that with a grain of salt

[Mary]

I WISH I wrote like Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett and Amy Tan!

[Ana]

Victoria wrote: "With three different pieces of writing I got J K Rowling, J R R Tolkien and Lewis Carroll.

I can live with that..."

If that is true, I would LOVE to see your writing!

[Ana]

I analyzed different stories of mine that I've written over the years to see if I've changed over the years. I used 2 different sites to analyze.
On iwl.me, I consistently got Agatha Christie.
On http://markallenthornton.com/blog/who... , I got different results but the authors that showed up most often were Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle and D.H. Lawrence.

[Bernard]

I think I write like Hemoingway, simplicity, direct, little embellishment, letting the characters speak and not the often boring and distant narrator.

[Devorah]

I did an online test and the result was Gertrude Stein.

[Ushasree]

I write like James Joyce, it says. He must be turning in his grave. Lol

[Simi]

Blaze wrote: "Every author has his own style. But if you get to compare your writing style to some other old, or famous author which one do you think you would come close to? Go here to see :- http://iwl.me
With..."

Apparently, I only write like Anne Rice. Can you believe it? I copied and paste the excerpt of my book, and I got the result.

[D.M.]

One quote it has me as Ursula K. Le Guin.
Another it has me as George Orwell.
Another it has me as Harry Harrison.
And then my final quote I looked up it said Mario Puzo.

They're all from the same book, so apparently I am just a giant mixture.

[Theresa]

On iwl, I most consistently got Anne Rice or Agatha Christie depending on what excerpt I chose.

On http://markallenthornton.com/blog/who... I got John Muir and Lucy Maud Montgomery most often. Arthur Conan Doyle also showed up often in the top five.

Curiously, I got these results on book 2 and my work in progress, the 3rd of the series. Book 1 was all over the place, lol.

[M.]

Hmmm. I pasted the entire text of a short story I wrote, retelling the story of Cain & Abel, and it told me I write like Agatha Christie. I've never read any of her stuff, so I can't say one way or another, although I suppose that the story of the first murder at least fits with her general themes?

But then, when I put in the first chapter of The Testament of Judas (retelling of the Gospel story, but with Jesus as necromancer bent on creating a zombie apocalypse) it says I write like James Joyce :-P

[C.E.]

Many short sentences with few adverbs like Hemingway.

NAMASTE

C.E. Gee

[Bobbie]

Wow, that's interesting. It says I write like Margaret Atwood. I'll take that as a compliment. I love her writing! Bobbie

[Saint]

I write like Agatha Christie. That is actually very dead on. I had no idea how true it was, but then I read an excerpt.

[Ben]

My said Stephen King. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I don't personally care for his books, but plenty of people certainly do!

[John]

I don’t try to write like anyone, but it’s possible my two strongest author inspirations, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Cormac McCarthy, are recognizable in my books.