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Didion, Joan. "Why I Write" from Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations. Edited by Ellen G. Friedman. Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 1984, p. 5-10. ISBN: 086538035X. (note: This essay is also frequently anthologized.)

Updike, John. "Why Write?" from Picked-up Pieces. New York: Knopf, 1975. p. 29-39. ISBN: 9780394498492.

Menand, Louis. "Bad Comma." The New Yorker, June 2004, 102-104.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1983, pp. 231-243. ISBN: 9780151445257.

Fraser, Kennedy. "The Poet of Everyday Life." In Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives. New York, NY: Knopf, 1996, pp. 191-201. ISBN: 9780394585390.

Pollack, Barbara. "Stitches in Time." House & Garden, November 2002, 98-103.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Artist of the Beautiful." In Hawthorne's Short Stories. Edited by Newton Arvin. New York, NY: Vintage, 1955, pp. 331-354. ISBN: 9780394700151.

Jung, Carl. The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/Bollingen Series, 1966, pp. 100-05. ISBN: 9780691097732.

Sacks, Oliver. Chapters 7, and 8 in Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. New York: Knopf, 2001, pp. 67-90. ISBN: 9780375404481.

McAuliffe, Kathleen. "The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison." The Atlantic Monthly, December 1995, 80-93.

Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Televisionary." The New Yorker, May 2002, 112-116. (This article is available at:gladwell.com)

Rollo, May. Preface, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, and sections 1-5. In The Courage to Create. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1982, pp. 7-8, 11-73, 124-140. ISBN: 9780553228953.

Hirschberg, Jerry. "Unleashing Creativity," Introduction, "Stepping Back from the Canvas," Chapters 5, and "Synthesis." Chapter 10 in The Creative Priority. NY: Harper Collins, 1999, pp. 1-25, 87-98, 191-212. ISBN: 9780887309601.

Koestler, Arthur. "The Three Domains of Creativity." In The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art. Edited by D. Dutton, and M. Krausz. Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, 1981, pp. 1-17. ISBN: 9789024724185.

Boden, Margaret. The Creative Mind. 2nd ed. London, UK: Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-39, notes 323-24. ISBN: 9780415314534.