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Goodreads asked Ian Pisarcik:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ian Pisarcik If I need a little motivation, I'll crack open a book by one of my favorite authors. I keep this "emergency stack" on a shelf near my desk. Just a few lines of Kent Haruf, Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Larry Brown, Marilynne Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Yates, or Michael Farris Smith is usually enough to get me going.

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