Tad Williams kept me from growing out of fantasy literature. Who knows, maybe I'd be writing in a respectable genre otherwise. ;)

There was an author at ReaderCon last year reading an excerpt from his newly published book. I sat there for five minutes listening to him describe the vampire and how it needed to feed. I just wanted to shout, "White Wolf called. They want their high school Masquerade fanfic back!" I think he secretly masturbated to his own manuscript about vampires.