Peter Cameron

I went back and picked passages from books that when I read them, I remembered them and read.

Peter Cameron, who's a novelist and a writer, I was reading his blog the other day, and I noticed he has a whole section of his blog on books, book reviews.

He begins it by saying, these began originally because I wanted to have something after I read a book that I knew I was going to forget entirely two days later.

So, your influences don't remain with you intact, but become part, I think, of what you generally admire in writing and what you feel might somehow be in the same area of writing that you are.