You know how people who are h...

You know how people who are having extramarital affairs always seem to manage to find time to see each other in order to have wild, transgressive sex? - P160

Don’t think of it all as burdensome; think of it all as sexy. - P161

Because that’s how much I lov...

Because that’s how much I loved the work: I would even eat somebody else’s shit sandwich if it meant that I got to spend more time writing. - P151

(While it’s lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it’s dangerous to be childish.) - P153

You can always make your art on the side of your bread-and-butter job. - P155

The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible. - P158

So when can you start pursuin...

So when can you start pursuing your most creative and passionate life? You can start whenever you decide to start. - P146

After many years of practice, Heaney explained, "the chain draws unexpectedly tight and you have dipped into waters that will continue to entice you back. You’ll have broken the skin on the pool of yourself." - P147

[오늘의 한문장] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

But this does not mean that unless you began your creative endeavors in your twenties, it’s too late! - P143

Thus, people will stick you i...

Thus, people will stick you into all sorts of boxes. They’ll call you a genius, or a fraud, or an amateur, or a pretender, or a wannabe, or a has-been, or a hobbyist, or an also-ran, or a rising star, or a master of reinvention. - P120

Actually, pigeonholing is something people need to do in order to feel that they have set the chaos of existence into some kind of reassuring order. - P120

Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to." Actually, don’t even bother answering. Just keep doing your thing. - P121

Because, in the end, it’s just creativity. Or, as John Lennon once said about the Beatles, "We were just a band!" - P126

Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it’s a gift. It’s the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. - P128

It doesn’t discourage me in the least, in other words, to know that my life’s work is arguably useless. All it does is make me want to play. - P128