"People trying to be original always arrive at the same boring old answers. Ask people to give you and original idea and see the chaos it throws them into. If they said the first thing that came into their head, there'd be no problem.
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He's not making any decisions, he's not weighing up one idea against another... How else could Dostoyevsky have dictated one novel in the morning and one in the afternoon for three weeks in order to fulfill his contracts?"
Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
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