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Goodreads asked J. Gary Sparks:

How do you get inspired to write?

J. Gary Sparks It's kind of like an ache inside to get what I have inside me into the outer world. Friend and mentor Jungian analyst Marion Woodman once said to me, "You have to get what is inside you outside, otherwise it will make you sick." I've never forgotten that.

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