Influence
In 2008 Elmore Leonard cited Richard Bissell as a major influence in formation of his style because he felt Bissell could be naturally funny:
''Once I realized he (Ernest Hemingway) doesn't have much of a sense of humour, at least he doesn't show it in his books then I had to find someone else. And there was a writer by the name of Richard Bissell and Bissell wrote Seven and One Half Cents which became The Pajama Game and wrote books set on the Mississippi river where he was a pilot, a towboat pilot I don't know for how long. Then he wrote about five books and he had such a natural style. There was humor on his towboat guys' talk, but it was never forced. He wasn't trying to be funny. That was the main point. I thought that's the way to do it. That's the way."
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—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)