Abraham H. Maslow on Inspiration for the Rest of Us
I am very certain that many, many people have awakened in the middle of the night with a flash of inspiration about some novel they would like to write, or a play or poem or whatever and that most of these inspirations never come to anything. Inspirations are dime to dozen. The difference between the inspiration and the final product is an awful lot of hard work, an awful lot of discipline, an awful lot of training, an awful lot of finger exercises and practices and rehearsals and throwing away of the first draft and so on.