Standing up to live

Today on Twitter someone posted the following quote: "How vain it is to sit down to write if you have not stood up to live". HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I love those words, and was reminded of all the people who ask me how long it takes a book. I usually tell them between six and nine months, but the more I think about it, the less true I realise that is.

The actual writing time may take six to nine months, but before that there is living to be done, for without inspiration a writer truly has nothing. ...