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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

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

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

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.