Before you go to bed, make a list of anything you did accomplish, and write down a list of what you want to get done tomorrow. - Austin Kleon

The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best — write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career.

I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.” This is actually a pretty good method for studying — if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you’ll choke. Instead, chew on one thinker — writer, artist, activist, role model — you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them.

"In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott