I wrote that sentence, and noticed the word 'inarguable', which is quite a big word, and that was the beginning of the end. I thought, 'I can't see why that isn't true. It was on Moore's 40th birthday that he made that switch - using drugs and ritual and imaginative concentration to, he believes, conjure gods and ask them for ideas. I told friends they ought to be keeping an eye on me. And my creativity has gone into hack hyperdrive, where you can write five books a month, and they're all good, and you don't even get that tired.
Writing is like a conscious trance now.
I see imagination as a landscape, and if I'm imagining something that somebody else has imagined before, I go further. I might focus on a flavour, or a scent, then the conceptual detail sharpens from the fog, and I write. I can move at blinding speed from concept to concept, often without drugs and ritual. Any idea I derive from magic that doesn't have an application in the material world, I discard. If I act like they are, I get a response.