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

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

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

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.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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'm a writer who likes to be influenced.