You’re about to publish Big Magic, a book on creativity that you’ve described as a guide to living a more creative life. Writing a book is difficult enough. Is writing a book about the creative impetus that goes into writing a book even harder?
It must be because it took me so damn long to get around to writing it. I think my obstacle was that I didn’t really know how to come at it. Most of my work is very heavily researched so I began with the same approach: I spent years gathering hundreds of books examining the links between creativity and madness and creativity and depression, cultural studies on creativity.
I gathered all of that stuff and the turning point for me was when I looked at those books and thought: “If I’m going to have to read one of those books, I’m going to fucking kill myself.” Because it takes all the joy out of it! I thought: “I have had a way of interacting with creativity for over 20 years that has been really satisfying and expansive and I know about this, not from research but my own lived experience. For me it was about: do I trust my lived experience enough, with no back-up, to say, “OK guys, here’s what I know?”
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