I believe kolektiv's point was about how the author wrote her/his piece kind of assuming that their readers think tight deadlines lead to inspiration. That is,

I believe kolektiv's point was about how the author wrote her/his piece kind of assuming that their readers think tight deadlines lead to inspiration. That is, the point was reflecting on how warped the subculture of WSJ readers must be, or perhaps how warped the perceived culture among WSJ readers is. Had the author assumed that all readers already shared the idea that free breathing room is needed for inspiration, that particular sentence fragment certainly would not have appeared in the article -- therefore, kolektiv made a deduction about the author's audience. It's certainly an interesting point to observe; I was also very surprised by that sentence in the article, because to me, the fact that freedom of pressure (and even boredom!) is helpful for inspiration seemed like one of these things that "everybody knows". [0] And apparently I was wrong ;-) [0] Deadlines are definitely good for the perspiration part, though ;)