The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
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.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.
I just have a lot off different influences.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.