Julia

“Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"
Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Worlds aren’t meant to support technological species.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

“All postindustrial technologies are potential extinction events in waiting.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden