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.

Joseph Campbell
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�?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.�? I think this quote is about how writers work differently than other people. Writers are very strange people because they must sit in their house all day, thinking about what they are going to write next. They must think really hard about what they are going to write next, which makes them confused about what to write next.

They must sit in their house all day and think about what to write next, which makes them stupid because they are not learning anything while sitting there thinking. If you want to be a writer, you have to learn something while sitting in your house all day, which makes you stupid because you are not learning anything while sitting there thinking. The writer is not supposed to think at all, but be reckless and crazy like your conscience will allow you to be.

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections On The Art Of Living

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