I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles KuraltI was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
Charles KuraltI would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
Charles KuraltI have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
Charles Kuralt