The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Keep all your passions in your life.

Write the book you want to read

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

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.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."