“If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him – word choice, sentence structure, motifs? – and think about why you’re doing it.”

“If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him – word choice, sentence structure, motifs? – and think about why you’re doing it.”

— Poppy Z. Brite