Mining
Great interview w/ Bruce Springsteen on Charlie Rose last night, repeated from Nov ’98. I especially loved this exchange--helped me grasp something about my work that I had sort of known, but never consciously grasped:
Charlie: Do you write every day?
Bruce: I wish I did. (laughs.) Sometimes--I’ve gone long periods of time without writing.
Because you didn’t feel it?
I don’t have an idea. (Laughs.)
No emotion that drives you to sit down and . . .
I don’t have an idea. Or whatever’s in there is sort of gestating. It’s hard to believe, but I think that I’ve gone long periods of time without doing much writing. I’ve gone through very difficult periods forcing myself to write. And I think what happens is you move in and out of--there’s different veins. You’re sort of--you’re a miner. You’re down there mining. And you hit a vein, and that goes with you for a very long time, and then it may dry up, and you move on to something else . . .
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