Jrr tolkien, Kathy Reighs, Terry Goodkind,
All people with the amazing ability to take you to a whole different moment, an entirely different universe. With the ability to envelope you in a completely new world.  They give you the chance to see things in someone else's perspective. A scientist, a wizard, a traveler, a king. 
They inspired me and so many others to merely attempt to do the same. But they gave us so much more. A passion, a dream, a world, an ability to see things in a whole different way than we did before.
And once you reach that level of writing you'll realise that it's all you.
It's not about becoming famous, or getting your books recreated into films. Although we may all think about it, it's never about that. If it was, then we wouldn't have been able to do what we do, to feel what we feel.