Goodreads asked Philip Casey:

How do you get inspired to write?

Philip Casey See advice to writers above. I hate the idea of getting an idea of what to write, as in "Where do you get your ideas?"That sounds like a school project to my ears. Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, says it all in the title. I must, above all, be open. Even writing non-fiction, as I have been doing, I can't work with a pre-conceived idea. Of course you're asking me; other writers will have a very different approach.

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