#creative act

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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