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Creativity is a marvelous thing to ponder. It’s just a wee bit harder to actually do and so I like to spend time dreaming about being creative.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see. — from Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation