Goodreads asked Cass Pennant:

How do you get inspired to write?

Cass Pennant Prisoners or cons who were often banged up 23 hours per day in what they said was a criminal college would form a queue outside my cell for the next chapter I had completed on a prison exercise book. These same people that were my captive readership I often watched shuffling along the landings looking to exchange Harold Robbins books. HMP Wormwood Scrubs 1978 aged 20 and if I ever need inspiration I just think where my first book idea started.

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