creativity

I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with...

You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be ready to-morrow?’ “‘Certainly,’ I answered. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you once more on the important position which you have been fortunate enoug...

Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.

The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. And yet, three months before I could tell my terrible story of starvation, as I thought it.