I tried not to admit how much I love reading.   But you sooner or later have to fess up.  I love writers from all genres ranging from Tolkein, Ed McBain, John Wyndham, Lawrence Block, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley ....  I could go on ad infinitume. I read Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment at school and was intrigued by the main character - Raskolnikov.  His irrational belief that he deserved a better lot might have struck a chord; but it was his slow decline that fascinated me.  That was the inspiration for my book 'Consequences?'