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Goodreads asked Richard Harvey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Richard Harvey Most days I sit down at the keyboard and remind myself to just write! There was a time when I would have to delete the first five pages or so, but these days I'm not quite so destructive. Inspiration? I don't know about that really. I think you simply have to have something to say. Inspiration, if that's what it is, comes from your life. So I would say to aspiring writers you have to live fully and well, take risks and gain from your benefits and setbacks, experience as much as you can, enrich your inner life in particular. You bring something back -- a boon, a treasure, insights, some wisdom --that demands to be shared with human souls.

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