Goodreads asked Adam J. Smith:

How do you get inspired to write?

Adam J. Smith Good writing and being moved by other work. Sometimes a line can do it, like:

"A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it." - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

Or sometimes it can be something really bland and boring which has made it to print and leaves you wondering, how can I be worse than this?

Ultimately, of course - not to understate it - life inspires; love and hate (because as we learned from Donnie Darko, that's all that matters).

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