Over at Castle Debacle, Kristine (My Midnight Muse) has written an article called Soul Stealing. It’s quite good, and you should read it. At the end, she asks:
So who’s living inside you? Which writers did you absorb during your formative, reader years? Who has become a part of the writer that you are, recognizable or not?
This is my rather long answer, which I thought would be interesting to post in my own blog with a summary in the comments… because this is somewhat long.
Spontaneous ∂erivation 