Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.