"[This quote needs a citation] Ghiselin thought he wanted to be a painter, but was unhappy with his art teachers, dropping out the middle of his freshman year.
After his meeting with Lawrence, he wrote a great deal of poetry that remained unpublished for six or seven years.
Finding the intellectual climate in Utah rather "chilling", he secured a job at Berkeley, where he and his wife Olive lived.
He was lured back to the University of Utah where he began teaching a course, in 1941, called "The Creative Process".
In 1952, Ghiselin edited The Creative Process, a symposium of the writings of some thirty-eight men and women, including Katherine Anne Porter, Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh, D. H. Lawrence, etc., on the creative process.