Dennis wrote:
"I believe it was Andre Gide who said, more or less, a writer
must imitate when he or she starts or he will never find his
own voice.
(Although it can be overdone to the point of destroying his
own talent.)"
Jean Cocteau wrote something similar, that all artists start
out by imitating others, but can never get it quite right
(for instance Borges's Pierre Menard trying to write Don
Quixote) and that it is through following up on these "screw
ups" that the artist develops his or her own style.
Mark
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