A slice of wisdom ...

... from Madeleine L'Engle's Walking on Water.

To work on a book is for me very much the same thing as to pray. Both involve discipline. If the artist works only when he feels like it, he's not apt to build up much of a body of work. Inspiration far more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of the artist is to listen to the work, and to go where it tells him to go. Ultimately, when you are writing, you stop thinking and write what you hear.

This is an excellent book, by the by. I highly reccomend reading it. But then I think I've said that already ...