oceans floor’s Reviews > Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear > Status Update

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind)

There is no love which does not become help - Paul Tillich

[about creative motive being helping others] don’t make it your sole creative motive, because we will feel the weight of your heavy intention, and it will put a strain upon our souls

on the next page “if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself”

“No genuine book has a first page. Like the rustling of the forest, it is begotten God knows where, and it grows and it rolls, arousing the dense wilds of the forest until suddenly… it begins to speak with all the treetops at once” -Boris Pasternak