Goodreads asked Leif Gregersen:

How do you get inspired to write?

Leif Gregersen I think I have to have the idea in my head that I am doing this for someone. My first book was about myself, my own struggles, and in a way I was writing it to get revenge on people who never thought I could make it, never thought I would make a living as a writer or didn't like me for various reasons. Since then I have grown a lot in many ways and I like to think I now write for all the people who consistently buy my work and support me with their kindness. There was this young woman I went to high school with who was the beauty queen of all beauty queens, dating the richest guy in town's son and getting a corvette at 16 from her parents. I always thought she had to be some kind of stuck up person but I happened to talk to her years after school and she was the sweetest person I ever met. She even got one of her friends to be my very first editor and I literally feel I owe my whole writing career to her. Every time I write a book I put her in the dedication page and it is her and a number of very kind and helpful people that inspire me to keep going, even when it seems impossible.

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