Goodreads asked Jay Antani:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jay Antani By the examples set for me by my favorite authors and by my writing teachers. I like reading works by South Asian authors like Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Divakaruni, Arvind Adiga and Suketu Mehta along with my writing mentors Janet Fitch and Gina Nahai. They are all inspirational. Simply reading their words energizes the impulse to get on the laptop and try my own hand at literary craftsmanship. My literary heroes are too many to name, but I'll settle for Hemingway for now. That man could write.

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