INFLUENCES
In his own words, William Davies describes what has shaped his writing
BOOKS
“Many of the classics, such as Dickens, Proust, Austen, Thomas Hardy, Milton, Wilkie Collins, along with John Mortimer, Voyage Round my Father, Mary Mccarthy, Between Friends, John Buchan, biographies, history, John Lukacs, Five days in London, May 1940. And many more, such as W.E Johns Biggles series which was very popular as I was growing up during the post war years”.
PEOPLE
“Gunner’ Owen (Gordon “Gunner” Hampton Owen), my English Literature teacher in my last year of High School, exposed me to the wealth from books and set me on my dream to write. I have done so all my life in an ad-hoc way until I had time to concentrate on it full time. I remember sending him my first short story in the months following my last year at school. He didn’t reply which threw out the window the scrap of confidence I had dreamed up in my writing abilities. He was given the nickname ‘Gunner’ from his stories as a prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore. The popular tale at the time was that he told stories all night to a group of badly wounded soldiers to find at daylight they had all died”.
“Weary Dunlop, through his biography. My first father in law, Sir Donald Anderson, who loved the development of our property Johnniefelds and had a delicious sense of humour. Emeritus Professor Frank Billson, an example of the perfect mind, balanced inquiring, determined.There are many more whose attitude and principles I admired, attitudes of striving to achieve and principles of honesty and dedication to the well-being of their fellow human beings”.
NATURE
“My enduring love of nature is the background to much of my writing and I grieve over the lack of respect our environment is given by so many”.
"INFLUENCES ON MY WRITING"
"AND WHERE TO FROM HERE"
In his own words, William Davies describes what has shaped his writing.
books
“Many of the classics, such as Dickens, Proust, Austen, Thomas Hardy, Milton, Wilkie Collins, along with John Mortimer, Voyage Round my Father, Mary Mccarthy, Between Friends, John Buchan, biographies, history, John Lukacs, Five days in London, May 1940. And many more, such as W.E Johns Biggles series which was very popular as I was growing up during the post war years”.
PEOPLE
“Gunner’ Owen (Gordon “Gunner” Hampton Owen), my English Literature teacher in my last year of High School, exposed me to the wealth from books and set me on my dream to write. I have done so all my life in an ad-hoc way until I had time to concentrate on it full time. I remember sending him my first short story in the months following my last year at school. He didn’t reply which threw out the window the scrap of confidence I had dreamed up in my writing abilities. He was given the nickname ‘Gunner’ from his stories as a prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore. The popular tale at the time was that he told stories all night to a group of badly wounded soldiers to find at daylight they had all died”.
“Weary Dunlop, through his biography. My first father in law, Sir Donald Anderson, who loved the development of our property Johnniefelds and had a delicious sense of humour. Emeritus Professor Frank Billson, an example of the perfect mind, balanced inquiring, determined.There are many more whose attitude and principles I admired, attitudes of striving to achieve and principles of honesty and dedication to the well-being of their fellow human beings”.
nature
“My enduring love of nature is the background to much of my writing and I grieve over the lack of respect our environment is given by so many”.
"INFLUENCES ON MY WRITING"
"WHERE TO FROM HERE"
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