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Continue to ChatI don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer. - Charles McCarry from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-don-t-feel-when-i-m-writing-that-i-m-drawing-from-any-other-writer-but-of-course-i-must-be-the-writers-i-ve