Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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Like most authors, I also love to read.
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.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.
It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
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.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.