Thoughts on Inspiration from Liz Gilbert & Amy Tan
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Is inspiration divinely inspired? A brain blip? The byproduct or cause of mental disorder? A source of strength?
Does it come from within (the unconscious, the right brain) or without (God, a muse, your daimon)?
I have my own ideas which I’m currently writing about and will be sharing with you soon. To kick off the discussion, here are two talks on this theme.
The first from Elizabeth Gilbert, most famously the author of Eat, Pray, Love: Here
The second from Amy Tan, most famously the author of The Joy Luck Club: Here.
What do you think? Where does your inspiration come from?
Divinely inspired deffinitely. And a source of strength deffinitely. Only difficulty is that “devinely” means different things to different people.
Although I’ve heard of both of these authors and books, I haven’t read either or the talks/articles you mention. Going there now.