Goodreads asked Owen Thomas:

How do you get inspired to write?

Owen Thomas I have found that inspiration is not something that I can really go looking for. It tends to find me when I am not especially focused on the need to be inspired. When it comes, it tends to come from the smallest of places. I wrote an entire book once on the strength of a melodic strain in a song that would not let me go and a Pablo Neruda poem. My advice is to relax and to be open to the beauty and depth in the simplest of things in the world around you.

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