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David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From and the Fragmentary Nature of Creativity
David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From and the Fragmentary Nature of Creativity

How to throw bait in the river of ideation.

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How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch
How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch

An avant-garde reminder that it’s all in a name.

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Dark Night of the Soul
Dark Night of the Soul

Cultural treasure-hunting, or what priceless music has to do with expensive photography.

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The Eternal Child Inside: Maurice Sendak on Storytelling and Creativity
The Eternal Child Inside: Maurice Sendak on Storytelling and Creativity

On the lifelong pleasure of “having your child self intact and alive and something to be proud of.”

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How Steinbeck Used the Diary as a Tool of Discipline, a Hedge Against Self-Doubt, and a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work
How Steinbeck Used the Diary as a Tool of Discipline, a Hedge Against Self-Doubt, and a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work

“Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.”

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David Lynch on Using Meditation as an Anchor of Creative Integrity
David Lynch on Using Meditation as an Anchor of Creative Integrity

“It’s a joke to think that a film is going to mean anything if somebody else fiddles with it.”

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Lynching Moby
Lynching Moby

The antidote to selling out, or what a 6-year-old has to do with a Beatles reunion.

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Drawing on Walls: An Illustrated Homage to Keith Haring, His Irrepressible Art of Hope, and His Beautiful Bond with Children
Drawing on Walls: An Illustrated Homage to Keith Haring, His Irrepressible Art of Hope, and His Beautiful Bond with Children

“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.”

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Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate

An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”

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The Paradox of Intellectual Promiscuity: Stephen Jay Gould on What Nabokov’s Butterfly Studies Reveal About the Unity of Creativity
The Paradox of Intellectual Promiscuity: Stephen Jay Gould on What Nabokov’s Butterfly Studies Reveal About the Unity of Creativity

“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.”

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