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Maybe he's getting at the idea that you need to have inspiration - in other words, you first need to have something to say, rather than to speak in order to have something to say.

I love this writer's saying: inspiration strikes he who is at the typewriter, meaning that although you cannot force inspiration, you can create conditions for it. Maybe that's what he means when Bukowski says then wait patiently.

Although my inspirations tend to come in the shower or walking in the park on a crisp autumn morning or sitting in a cafe, I do need to prepare myself - by immersing myself in the material, then asking a question of silence, instead of presuming the answer. IANAM, but I love the approach of Poincaré: It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poin...

He also says, in agreement with Bukowski: Logic, therefore, remains barren unless fertilised by intuition.