“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t.”— Julia Cameron Related Quotes “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”— Vladimir Nabokov “As every writer knows… there is something mysterious about the writer’s ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is ‘hot’, an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another… Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from ‘inspiration’ or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.”— John Gardner “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”— Stephen King