"To work on a book is for me very much the same thing as to pray. Both involve discipline....Inspiration far more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work and to go where it tells him to go" (176).
"...I try to take time to let go, to listen, in much the same way that I listen when I am writing" (203).
What am I listening to?
And is there a direct correlation between an uncreative spirit and an inability to be still and listen?
I would have to say "Yes" to your rhetorical question.
Posted by: Nathanael | September 17, 2007 at 05:12 PM