Writers, Artists And Stereotypes

Why clichés about creativity are hard to dislodge

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My hopes and aspirations are full of clichés.

Here is one about writers and artists: I picture someone who yearns for liberation, who bravely leaves behind their hometown, who boards a train or a steam-ship (my imagination always travels back to the 1920s) and departs for a remote island, or travels…