We are the Creator!
6th April 2017 | for Creatives | artist integrity, creativity, writing, KEEP CREATING, word count, Ray Bradbury, Franz Kafka, value the art, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Joyce |
"A few words an hour, a few etched paragraphs per day and—voilà! We are the Creator! Or better still, Joyce, Kafka, Sartre! Nothing could be further from true creativity. Nothing could be more destructive."
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