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#497: Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Great Enemy of Creativity

We need a good deal of spirit and kind of optimism, I think of any kind of positive delusions or Illusions about the worth of what we're doing. You could be an entire novel to be painted a painting of something extraordinary that's never been done before but beyond that is just the film that is the sheer pleasure in creativity, which is dead. How do you overcome the the difficulties or advise the students overcome the difficulties am starting a given writing project? Well, I think we're all very different. Some people have a good deal of energy and excitement in the beginning and they can stay up all day long working on a novel know reading a complete short story.

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