灵感从哪里来？
好多作家，越写越多，作品源源而出，而且越写越精彩，他们的灵感为什么会有那么多？是从哪里来的？他们事先储备了多久？难道不会枯竭？
一个立志写作的人，如果写到最后，灵感枯竭了，他该怎么办？
在写作初期，我常常有这些问题萦绕在心中，常常怀疑自己的写作能力，没有自信能长期持久地写出作品来，总认为题材会有写完的一天，灵感会有枯竭的一天，到那时，不知该怎么办？
可是，我不停地写了一、二十年，不但不会没有灵感，找不到题材，而且越写灵感越多，题材越不虞匮乏。到现在，我才感悟到，灵感只有越用多，不会越用越少，或用光。多思考，多观察，多体验，灵感自然生成。
为什么常用的井，水是甜美的，不用的则污浊有臭味？为什么刀子不用会生銹，越用却越利？为什么屋梁容易生蛀虫而户枢不生？……这些以前想不通的事，现在我豁然贯通了。
不错，只有不流的水才变臭，不用的机器才生銹，不想的脑筋才会笨……。
不错，户枢不蛀，流水不腐，刀子越用越利，灵感越用越多，笔越写越流利……。
1980年4月28日青年战士报新文艺
Where is the Inspiration come from Hsu ChiCheng
Where is the inspiration come from?
There are many author, they write more and more, the works manufacture incessantly, the more splendid the more they depict, how many are their inspiration like that? Where are they come from? How long are they stored in advance? Surely it doesn’t exhaust.
For a person make up his mind in writing, how can he do while his inspiration is exhausted at last?
During the early period, I often linger in my mind with these questions, often suspect my writing ability, no self confidence can write for long time, often feel that the theme will be finished one day, inspiration will be exhausted one day, I don’t know how to do at that time.
However, I write incessantly for ten to twenty years, it not only not search no theme, but also more and more of inspiration, theme is not exhaust. Till now, I come to realize inspiration is more and more we apply, not less and less or come to an end while we apply. Inspiration will generate naturally while we strive to think, strive to observe, hardworking to learn through practice.
Why the well applies more often, the water taste sweet, the water is muddy and foul while we not apply it? Why the knife will rust while we not apply, and more apply it will keen? Why the beam easy to has moth and pivot not?…I’m now suddenly see the whole thing in a clear light while it can not realized before.
It’s no fault. It just the water not flow will muddy, the machinery will rust while not apply, and the head will become foolish while not think about…
It’s no fault. The pivot will not be moth—eaten, the flowing water will not muddy, the more apply the more the knife will keen, the more we apply the more the
inspiration is, the more smooth more the pen use in writing…@
责任编辑：林芳宇
