Writing Technique Question

[mburbank]

I agree that influence creeps into your work no matter what you do, but I don't see that as a problem, I see that as one of the most fundamental aspects of art.

So he doesn't read. What else doesn't he do? Watch TV, listen to the radio, talk to other people? I think you'd need to spend years in a sensesory depravation tank to avoid the risk of other's creative material creeping into your own.

That being said, I've always been (and I think most artists are) a collageists to one degree or another. In some cases my influences are very pparent, in some fairly near invisible to anyone but me. I haven't read any of his stuff, so won't comment, but completely original thinkers are the rarest of beasts.