Goodreads asked Sue Thomas:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sue Thomas I'm inspired to write by ideas and questions. My first novel. Correspondence, 1992, was written to answer two questions that had been buzzing around in my head for a long time. 1. What might it feel like to be a machine? 2. Why was I obsessing about living closer to nature? It turned out that the answer to both questions was the same thing, which was a real surprise, and that understanding has informed my thinking ever since. My second novel, Water, 1994, came simply from a desire to write a novel about water, and to do it without repeating myself in terms of imagery etc. In that case, it became a book about desire, imagining, and motherhood. Another surprise! So I guess I'm inspired to write by a quest for answers that I don't understand until I reach the end.

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