All human creations are a product of both creative thinking and critical thinking. Creative thinking gets the crude thing; critical thinking refines it. It’s as T. S. Eliot said:
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labour of an author in composing his work is critical labour: the labour of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing: this frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
(Quoted from page 4 of The Way to Write, by John Fairfax and John Moat. St. Martin’s Press, 1981.)
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