Goodreads asked Jasper Barry:

How do you get inspired to write?

Jasper Barry I've always written - under the bedclothes, by torchlight, at my boarding school, I wrote a 500 page novel about the Irish Troubles (it was absolutely atrocious). Writing is ghastly, a work of endurance, like climbing a mountain, particularly when you get to the last third of a book, and almost anything - descaling the kettle, detangling the cat - seems more attractive than putting words on paper. But I'm at a loss when I'm not writing. So it's not really a question of inspiration, but of necessity.

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