Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

The only way to find your voice is to use it

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

Do good work and share it with people.

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.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.