Sunday, July 20, 2014

Joshua Wolf Shenk in New York Times Sunday Review says Lone Genius is a Myth

He asks where creativity comes from. His answer is that it involves at least “two entities…even a single person and the voice inside her head…And when we listen to creative people…they often mention…having a conversation in their own minds…This phenomenon is so uncanny that the writer Elizabeth Gilbert has proposed that we return to the myth of the muses…”

When it comes to novelists, I would say that creativity comes from the lone genius with multiple personality.

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