Can folk be a bit more specific about how these books have influenced their photography though?
Reading leads me out of the work-a-day world and into a frame of mind that leads to creativity.
http://www.anniedillard.com/curriculum-vitae.html
Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer for
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was finishing my BS at Western, it was a fantastic time were creativity appeared to have no limits.