I have lots of „favourite writers", it would be tough to list them all, but i have one idol: J.K. Rowling.
Why her? Because she was a teacher, then she became globally known. I am right now only just a teacher, and its not probable that i'll ever reach her, in terms of global fame, but she is a great motivator and proof that anything could happen. Two of my books have already released in Hungary, with quite decent success, but it's not sufficent to live on it. My english knowledge is also not sufficent enough to write a book, so my writing was translated by a Canadian Doctorate Historian, who speaks hungarian.