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Goodreads asked Mark Hayden:

How do you get inspired to write?

Mark Hayden Until you've started to write, you don't realise just how many of the clichés trotted out by previous writers are true - that some characters really do take over a story, for example. In this case, I don't need inspiration to write my novels, the stories are inside me and *insist* on being told.

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