So you have to write when you’re not “inspired.” ... And the weird thing is that six months later, or a year later, you’re going to look back and you’re not going to remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you wrote because they had to be written.

There’s a Bukowski poem that goes: “Take a writer away from his typewriter / and all you have left / is / the sickness / which started him / typing / in the / Beginning.”

* "[Writing] should feel like work rather than labor."