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Yeah, this is the essential mystery of creation whether you’re talking about an individual act of creation such as writing a poem, a story or a comic or whether you’re talking about the creation of the universe. It’s all something from nothing. You could say the same thing about thoughts entering our heads. Ideas. There’s that white page somewhere there at the beginning of the process, whether you’re talking in cosmological terms where the white page is the quantum vacuum. If you’re a novelist then it is literally a white page. Now, what you have to do is limit yourself. You cannot work in a complete conceptual void. Which is what the white page is. You have to start putting restrictions upon yourself. Now, if you’re working commercially then you’re lucky, in a way, because some of those restrictions will be pre-imposed.
— L’ESSAIM VICTORIEUX DES MOUCHES D’EAU: The craft. —a very VERY VERY long interview with Alan Moore
