Are there any books that changed how you wrote music? Personally studying Persichetti's 20th Century Harmony really helped me find a lot of aesthetics in music that I otherwise wasn't using in music. Not just in the flashy stuff such as polymodality, but just in some of the more unconventional ways to gain momentum in music, different ways to voice chords, and out of the box root motion. What is your music bible? Do you have a favorite composer or musician?
i'm sorry to disappoint you but i prefer to learn music from music, and all of life in general. not from books