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A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

Northrop Frye
Writing, Mean, People
Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.89, Dundurn
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.