Interesting talk but irritating, neurotic woman. She advocates dissociating self from one's creativity and manifesting it in some kind of cosmic force or god e

Interesting talk but irritating, neurotic woman. She advocates dissociating self from one's creativity and manifesting it in some kind of cosmic force or god external to the writer to overcome the anxiety of past success. A popular strategy through the ages but a recipe for disaster nonetheless. A better strategy would be to examine her motives as to why she writes and whether popularity contests (i.e. commercial success) is a good standard of the quality of her work. Of course, commercial success is important especially for the artist but if the primary motive is to please the crowds (and its proxy, commercial success) whatever creativity you had will fade. cf. Hollywood.