In Michael Dobbs' house of cards, Francis Urquhart played by the late Ian Richardson said that he got his prose style from Beatrix Potter.

Why have I written this?

We are influenced by different people's prose styles and reading your article and I can't stop thinking of great literature which I have missed out on over the years: Dostoyevsky, T.S. Eliot, Baldwin, Ellison, Hughes, Joyce etc.