Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature. . . Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.