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I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.