All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.