I have had my little rituals throughout the years, and believe they are necessary, at least for most people. I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while. There have been times I would retype old manuscripts, write letters, write anything, just to get the machinery moving. Just touching a keyboard awakens something within me that only comes to life when I'm working. I only became aware of the writer sleeping, very soundly, within me after I started writing, and it took years of writing every day to wake him up.
Hubert Selby Jr., author of Requiem for a Dream
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