Do you ever find yourself using words from the books you read in your writing?
I was going over something I wrote the day when I saw that I had used the word inevitable. What caught my attention was not the word itself but I realized that a few years ago I might not have used it. After reading a lot of books the word inevitable just became a part of the words I use without me even realizing it.
This made me think about how much of what we write comes from all the things we have read. I do not mean that we copy things. I mean how certain words or how we put sentences together or even the way a paragraph sounds can become a part of our own way of writing.
Lately I have been paying attention to this when I read. When I see a word I do not know I make a note of it. Look at it again later. This has made me see how useful words I would have forgotten if I had not seen them again after some time.
I am curious to know if this has happened to anyone. Have you ever looked at something you wrote and seen that a book had an effect, on the words you use or your way of writing even if you could not remember which book it was?