if you read old books, you get to add all the years the author lived onto your own life. - Austin Kleon

Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus. “On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This book is me talking to a previous version of myself.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.