What Inspired Stuart Dibek to Write the Way He Did?

Stuart dibek always wrote while listening to music. He became enchanted with two hungarian composers, zolton cadali and bella bertock. The bird in dickens story was inspired by his real life pet, a raven named grip who died from eating paint chips. Stuart told me that when he first started writing, he had also fallen in love with the great american realists,. saul bello and scott fitzgerald and nelson aldren.