a creative moment

I have always known that one day I would take this path though yesterday I did not know it would be today.
— Arriwara no Naribari  (Japan, eleventh century) (p. vii)
Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself. Understand that you cannot keep out of [...]

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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box. (7)
A rut is the consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don’t take into account how or the world have changed. (186)
Twyla Tharp is one of America’s finest choreographers. Her blank canvas is a large, white, empty room. [...]

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