“Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

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