Copying is about reverse-engineering.
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.
The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.
School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.
If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.