I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.
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I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.
My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
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.