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There are lots who are published, many who can string words, sentences and paragraphs into something readable, but very few who are truly inspirations, who truly deserve the name 'author'.
Among the many I have enjoyed, I count Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Haruki Murakami, John Steinbeck, e.e. cummings, Walt Whitman, Eudora Welty and Emily Dickinson as personal influences. Without their voices, however soft or loud they chose to speak, I would not be who I am nor have a notion of what I might become.
Authors hold up mirrors so that we may see ourselves and so see the world.
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