“The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Deciding you should get divorced because you’ve run out of love is like deciding you should sell your car because it has run out of gas. No reasonable person would ever do that. You simply put more gas in your car and go on. If your marriage “love low” light comes on, pull over and start putting love back into your marriage. Once you’ve filled it back up, then you can go on. SOWING”
― From This Day Forward: Five Commitments to Fail-Proof Your Marriage
― From This Day Forward: Five Commitments to Fail-Proof Your Marriage
“Constantly mirroring your values in your actions and your actions in your values is an important part of getting to know and working with your values.”
― Play Your Brain:Adopt A Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career
― Play Your Brain:Adopt A Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career
“In the end, merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them. Adding something to the world that only you can add.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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