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I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.