Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
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