“To begin with, you must teach the unconscious to flow into the channel of writing. Psychologists will forgive us for speaking so airily about “teaching” the unconscious to do this or that. To all intents and purposes that is what happens; but less elegantly and more exactly we might say that the first step towards being a writer is to hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.”
Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer