While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended--for example, in dreams and trancelike states. All who read The Act of Creation will find it a compelling and illuminating book.
A must read, a must resource, a must way of thinking for stimulating creative writing, art, invention, thinking, speaking....
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Length:
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