Recent conversations about #writing have reminded me that the #writers whose work I like the best, and the writers whose work *they* like the best, are often very disjoint sets.

Which seems kind of odd to me, really. If I like their writing, shouldn't I also expect to like the writers whose work influenced theirs? But it doesn't always or even usually work that way.

@medigoth You would expect some transitivity, but I have roughly the same experience. There doesn't seem to be much correlation.

Minds are complicated, apparently.