Goodreads asked C.K. Phillips:

How do you get inspired to write?

C.K. Phillips Maybe one has to be a genius to be a writer--at least as defined by Thomas Jefferson, who once said that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. The point that I would make is that the inspiration is there (almost always), but the real secret is "doing the perspiration"--sitting down at the computer and putting words on the paper. Some days that comes easily, but, on those other days, I inspire myself to write when I challenge and force myself to write.

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