"Lifelong creativity isn’t given to you. You must earn it and attend to it every day… You will have to dig deep to find the requisite honesty, courage, and resilience to live an artful, art-filled, art-committed life… You must really want it and really commit to it in order to have it… to crack through everyday resistance and create for a lifetime."
Eric Maisel, PhD, in his book Creativity for Life
http://shrd.by/SM2Q54
This is also the textbook for his online course Your Best Life in the Arts
http://talentdevelop.com/YBLITA