Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.