There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.” — John Currin - Austin Kleon

The computer is really good for editing your ideas, and it’s really good for getting your ideas ready for publishing out into the world, but it’s not really good for generating ideas. There are too many opportunities to hit the delete key. The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us — we start editing ideas before we have them. The cartoonist Tom Gauld says he stays away from the computer until he’s done most of the thinking for his strips, because once the computer is involved, “things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.

It's so important to have a hobby. A hobby is something creative that's just for you. You don't try to make money or get famous off it, you just do it because it makes you happy. A hobby is something that gives you but doesn't take.

La pregunta que todo escritor joven debe hacerse en algún punto es: “¿Qué debo escribir?” Y la respuesta común es: “Escribe lo que sabes.” Este consejo siempre lleva a las terribles historias en las que n-a-d-a interesante pasa.