Goodreads asked Charles Justus Garard:

How do you get inspired to write?

Charles Justus Garard Good question. Ask me something easy. Maybe from two places: my father's very small-town movie theatres in western Illinois . . . and my grandmother's library. She would read books to me, and I would sit next to her and draw images from the stories. When I would play with rubber cowboys as a young boy, I would, for some reason, imagine that they were characters in a movie. As I mentioned above, I would draw comic books where I could invent my stories. When I got hold of an old typewriter, I started writing movie synopses -- creating my own stories from there. I was teased about being imaginative and immature in order to hide out from the real world, but that was my mind wanted to hide, in a world that I could control -- even when I got my first home movie camera. I could be the hero I wanted to be . . . and I still do this, but now as an adult. (I think. Or did I ever grow up?)

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