Jim Fisher
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Lee D. Thompson:
When did you realize you wanted to be a writer? Were there any books/authors that inspired you towards becoming a writer?
Lee D. Thompson
Hi Jim! In my mid 20s - really wasn't a fiction-reader before then, and the only writing I'd done was songwriting. I started reading science fiction and that love for adventure turned into a love for all kinds of adventurous fiction (including language, plot, structure). Very early on it was a science fiction novel The Mote in God's Eye (Niven/Pournelle), and, a little later, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, which may have had the greatest influence, but I was already writing by then.
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Richard O.
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Lee D. Thompson:
Among your influences, I've read all but McElroy. I've reread Barthelme recently and delightedly, and am heartened by you and others reading The Waves, for me Woolf's most difficult book. There's George Saunders but I wonder whether you think the element of (post)-mod invention and play is as central to contemporary fiction as that in Joyce, O'Brien, Pynchon, Barthelme as well as Borges and Calvino?
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