From Anais Nin's "Fire" diary-

"Walking home and thinking, in my book I can ordain, rule, walk, laugh, shout, do acts of violence, kill. I am creator and king. This same will applied to life, kills one. All creators are unhappy in life. All creators are absolutists. Tired of struggling against the limitations of life. In art none."


I am actually quite happy in life, so I disagree somewhat with the line "All creators are unhappy in life." (I agree complete with all the rest.) Although I should say when I am un-happiest is when I am in my creative state and the disconnect between that world and the real world is so vastly noticeable and it's impossible not to compare and contrast. We are forced to live as two. So, we do. And that's that.