Crushing Disappointment And Soaring Creativity
“Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied,” Zadie Smith counseled in her Ten Rules Of Writing. But how does one befriend this perennial dissatisfaction while continuing to unlock, to borrow Julia Cameron’s potent phrase, the “spiritual electricity” of creative flow?
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To the creative spirit, there is “no satisfaction whatever at any time […] There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
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