Goodreads asked Eldred Buck:

How do you get inspired to write?

Eldred Buck I absolutely love reading and without doubt the greatest inspiration I get is from reading other writers’ works. There are so many novelists that I love and admire, from Anthony Burgess to Joseph Conrad, Patrick O’Brian to Sebastian Faulks, Margaret Atwood to Dashiell Hammett to name just a very few. Fiction writing is always hugely challenging and it can be difficult to maintain the focus and intensity that is required for writing. I find my own energy and enthusiasm for writing is massively increased when I read the works of other writers, who provide the benchmarks for what is possible

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