Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas Edison -

About this theme: Creativity

Creativity is usually discussed as inspiration arriving from outside, and least often as what it mostly is: work done on days when it does not want to be done. The tension is old. Antiquity had muses, Romanticism had genius, and the twentieth century had the working habits of writers who rose at five because otherwise nothing happened at all.

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