Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors
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The Influence of Dickens on My Writing
When I wrote Slow Horses the first in the series, I deliberately lent on the opening of Bleak House as a way of getting into Sigh House itself. And I've done something similar in each of the introductions ever since. So it all goes back to Dickens. What writers want to do is find their own voice and know that they've... Obviously there are all sorts of influences at work, conscious and unconscious. But out of those you want to melt something that you feel belongs to you and is yours alone.
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