If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.