We make things because we like making things. - P87
All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal’s office to live a creative life. - P89
No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. - P92
The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life. - P92
I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. - P98
So take your insecurities and your fears and hold them upside down by their ankles and shake yourself free of all your cumbersome ideas about what you require (and how much you need to pay) in order to become creatively legitimate. - P108
All I had to do in order to learn from Dickens was to spend years privately studying his novels like they were holy scripture, and then to practice like the devil on my own. - P108
The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea—that it is ultimately entirely up to you—the better off you’ll be. - P110
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