Inspiration…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 

(On process): “When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone.  . . .Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation.  That background material is the most intimate part of my private life.  It’s a little embarrassing–like being seen in your underwear. . . .  It’s like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat. . . .  There isn’t anything more wonderful than writing when you truly have a book in your grip.  That is what I call inspiration.  There is a definite state of mind that exists when one is writing that is called inspiration.  But that state of mind is not a divine whisper, as the romantics thought.  What it is is the perfect correspondence between you and the subject you’re working on.  When that happens, everything starts to flow by itself.  That is the greatest joy one can have, the best moment.”