“I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.” — David Bergen Quote

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

You can invite people over or make your kids their favorite food - that usually inspires me in the kitchen.