INTERVIEWER
You said earlier that one’s dream life is the foundation of art.
HARRISON
It is for everyone whether they like it or not. Or that sleeping/waking period early in the morning. Your brain has spent the night evolving a sequence of metaphors that allows you to survive the day, and sometimes it comes out in such poignant, distinctive terms.
INTERVIEWER
Hemingway spoke about stopping work when it was going well and then not thinking about it until the next day. Can you actually shut down the process at the end of the workday?
HARRISON
Not altogether successfully. You want to give it as much chance to occur as possible, but not too much. It’s similar to that Faulknerian notion that if you grovel before the muse, she’ll only kick you in the teeth. You have to court her, do little dances, all these things you do to keep right with her.
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