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I think I am doing this all the time. In fact, my writing style is very often showing references to other authors. It is partially intentional and partially not. I am sure I am writing akin to somebody even without realising.
I am not sure if I could quote an example, basically it's really just everywhere. But perhaps just one which I can quote rightaway - it's a rather specific example, and it was intentional that time; one short story of mine about a necromancer and his apprentices; at one point the apprentices were talking and one of them said to the others: "You'd better go and study now, if you don't want to end like conjurers of cheap tricks."
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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