Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote \"Kubla Khan\" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his \"Raven\" was worked out \"with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.\" D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life. | The Mind's Best Work by D. N. Perkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters