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I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

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 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.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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.

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.