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Goodreads asked Ray Zimmerman:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ray Zimmerman Nature is my muse. I sit at a table on my porch which faces a woodlot alive with Crows, Woodpeckers, Squirrels, and even an occasional bald eagle. I take notebooks with me when hiking and bird watching. I also read the best of the best writers. I just reread Walden by Henry David Thoreau and I am rereading the travel journals of Matsuo Basho (1644 to 1694).

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