Maria Popova’s BrainPickings.org has an interesting piece on creativity and Oliver Sacks’ essay on the subject.

It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled. It is a gamble as all creative projects must be, for the new direction may not turn out to be productive at all.

Image credit: Kathy deWitt/Alamy, from the obituary of Oliver Sacks on Nature.com