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Goodreads asked Brian Shotton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Brian Shotton Kent Haruf used to say that before he would write, he would read Faulkner so he would remember good writing. I reread sections of books I adore. Sections from Something Wicked This Way Comes or a battle scene from Conan. These things remind me what might be. They set a bar I will never reach, but I will try.

Then I put on some music and let it fill my soul until the words tumble out of me.

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