Goodreads asked Greg Dinner:

How do you get inspired to write?

Greg Dinner I used to discuss this with my screenwriting students. There is inspiration all around you. You write what you know but that doesn't necessarily mean a world you know, or know well. You write about what you care about, and about the themes that resonate in whatever world or milieu. You explore ideas and thus you explore yourself. I get much inspiration from true stories that sit in my thoughts and memory and then explode. From that I extrapolate fiction, taking in the the themes that I have spent a lifetime exploring, working over, and over, and over again.... and still not finding the answers to the question I ask.

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