Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

You're ready. Start making stuff.

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.

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.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.