Goodreads asked Richard Risemberg:

How do you get inspired to write?

Richard Risemberg Sometimes all that's needed is to look around and write what Hemingway liked to call "one true declarative sentence" about the world in front of your face. Or the world behind your face, or someone else's. Feelings are real, even if the world may in fact be only a coarseness of perception. Snippets of conversation overheard can be cleaned up and fictionalized to begin an exploration of the great counterpoint of love we are endlessly improvising. Really, there's no need for inspiration: just start writing, writing about simple sensations, objects, and interactions, and the rest follows. Then edit out the padding. There will be padding, because you will overwrite at first.

Let the world speak through you. Be an oracle, not a priest.

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