A clever trick does not a concept make.
“Thought is the only concept that creates the unknown. You have everything you need to know in this moment.”
“I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.”
“Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been broug...”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”
“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”
“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”