Goodreads asked Stephen Hall:

How do you get inspired to write?

Stephen Hall I really ENJOY writing - it’s great fun for me. And if the project is one I’m excited about, I can’t wait to return to that playground, to keep making life-and-death decisions for the characters, to excite, amuse and hopefully surprise the reader.... and often to surprise myself! And by the way, that’s also my rule of thumb for deciding whether a writing project is worth pursuing; if I’m NOT excited by it, off it goes into the bottom drawer.... (maybe I’ll be able to salvage something from it later).

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