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By stealth. I'm not aware of influences but know they must be there. The sole instance of a technique having an effect on my own writing is the book The Go-Between by LP Hartley. He uses the weather to enormous effect in the telling of the tale, the temperature increasing as the tension in the plot gathers momentum, and the denouement takes place and is reflected in a huge storm that breaks the stifling weather. I sometimes use the weather in a similar manner. This is the only instance in which I consciously employ something learned from another writer. But I admire the styles and techniques of other writers and hope to heck that they influence me without my being aware of it. For instance, I marvel at the feet of CS Lewis' clarity and simplicity in revealing complex matters and wish that I could write in the same way. Occasionally, readers have paid me the compliment of remarking on my own ability to reach the heart of something without overcomplication but, if there is any truth in these comments, I don't know to what extent I owe them to Mr Lewis. It may also be true that I have a certain facility in mimicking the styles of some other writers. I find it easy to slip into the style of H Rider Haggard, for instance, and do this fairly often when a piece benefits from it (Victorian-style melodramas mostly). But this is a deliberate copying and is not truly an influence in my usual style (so far as I know). |
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