Goodreads asked David Hodges:

How do you get inspired to write?

David Hodges Inspiration is a funny old word and over used, in my opinion. In reality, writing is a compulsion, which you can't leave alone; a bit like an itch you can't stop scratching. I was 'inspired', I suppose you'd call it, after reading Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories and dreaming about doing something similar in the middle of dreary maths or science lessons at school. Since then, plots just come out of the blue. I see or hear something and think, 'that might make a good story', and just go with it. It might be an old dark house I see on the roadside or just something someone says. It's difficult to explain what motivates me. The problem is discipline - staying with the idea and not deviating to something else on the way.

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