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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've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

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.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

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.

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.