Goodreads asked Sarah Arthur:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sarah Arthur I can't remember a time when I DIDN'T want to write books: it's been my entire posture toward the world since the time I was small. Storytelling is just how I roll. But I was definitely inspired by all the authors I read; I would memorize their names just like you memorize book titles: Scott O'Dell, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Barbara Willard--I even memorized the names of illustrators (Pauline Baynes, Michael Hague, the list goes on). Early on I recognized that I was part of a guild, that these were my people, these were folks that spoke my mother tongue. Why would I not want to do what they do?

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