How authors get their inspiration

1. Where do Authors Get Their
Ideas From?

2. Stephen King
When he was younger, he apparently witnessed his friend
being killed by a train, though he doesn’t have much
memory of it. When he returned to his home, he was
shocked, and some psychologists thought that this event
may have inspired some of his darker works.
He is also influenced by a lot of other writers such as
Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury.
“A horror story if there ever was one...a great
adventure story—it is certainly one of that select
handful that I have given to people, envying them
the experience of the first reading.”

3. William Shakespeare
He is a author and playwright, who is often regarded
as the greatest writer in English Language. He died in
1616 aged 52, and had written many tragedies,
romances and comedies throughout his years. Some
of his most known work includes Romeo and Juliet
and Macbeth.
His work was always done in a conventional style and
wrote them in a stylised language which often came
across as rhetorical. He also borrowed a lot of his
ideas.

4. Roald Dahl
He is a British novelist , who is best known writing
books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Matilda and The BFG.
The way he was inspired to write Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory came about when he was a pupil
at Repton when they were invited to trial chocolate
bars, which was a memory that stayed from him
throughout his life.
His childhood was unfortunate after he lost his sister
and father when he was young, he also had bad
years at boarding school

5. J.K.Rowling
She is a British writer who is most known for writing
the Harry Potter series . Her inspiration for the series
came when she was delayed on a train from
Manchester to Kings Cross, and she had thought up
the idea on that train, and over the next five years
she began planning out all the seven books.
Also, some of the dark tones of the series were
based on Rowling’s past life experiences, issues such
as depression which she suffered in her 20s when
her mother died.