Cynthia Lofsness:

I've experienced that the activity of writing does make things happen....That's the way ideas come about for me...through a willing acceptance of sub-ideas that aren't really dignified enough for most people to pay any attention to, but if I begin to pay attention things always come....It's not writing from a reservoir; it's like engaging in an activity out of which things come.

When interviewed by William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, p. 112