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When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.