The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
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Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
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