"We writers…[and] creative people across all genres, it seems, have this reputation for being enormously mentally unstable. And all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands…But we don’t even blink when we hear somebody say this because we’ve heard that kind of stuff for so long and somehow we’ve completely internalized and accepted collectively this notion that creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked and that artistry, in the end, will always ultimately lead to anguish. …I think it’s better if we encourage our great creative minds to live." - Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:29:09 +0000
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