Alan Lightman Interview, Part 2

by Alex Burack

I have found that getting stuck is a very important part of the creative process. That when you're stuck, your subconscious mind is catalyzed and you actually do a lot of very good thinking that you wouldn't have done if you weren't stuck.
Listen to Alan Lightman on "getting stuck"
AB: To you, how are the scientific process and the writing process similar?

AL: I think the creative moment is very similar, the feeling in the creative moment. That feeling of losing all sense of who you are and where you are; losing all sense of your body, losing all sense of your ego and ...