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With success comes a level of sadness. You think, ‘I’ll reach this goal, and then I’ll feel a sense of completeness, of wholeness. I’ll feel that I have accomplished something. I will see myself as a worthy man.’ And it doesn’t really exist.””Pete Campbell via Marlon
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.”
Now creativity can happen. Because play is possible when we’re separate from everyday life.”
When we came up against a block [in screenwriting] and our discussions became very heated and intense, Hitchcock would suddenly stop and tell a story that had nothing to do with the work at hand. At first I was almost outraged. And then I discovered that he did this intentionally. He mistrusted working under pressure. He would say, “We’re pressing, we’re pressing. We’re working too hard. Relax; it will come.” And, of course, it finally always did.”Hitchcock’s Writing Partner via Cleese
I will keep stressing the point about creativity being augmented by routine and habit. Get used to it. In these pages a philosophical tug of war will periodically rear its head. It is the perennial debate, born in the Romantic era, between the beliefs that all creative acts are born of (a) some transcendent, inexplicable Dionysian act of inspiration, a kiss from God on your brow that allows you to give the world The Magic Flute, or (b) hard work.”Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
If you don’t know what you want to build, then start paying closer attention to the things that already interest you.”
The opportunity is in building a more efficient, rewarding, communications channel between consumers and makers.”
It often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest, mercy, beauty, sleep, clean water and hot food are all the work of the Increate. Thus, stories are small things indeed in the scheme of the universe, but it is hard not to love best what is our own—hard for me, at least.”Severian ∞
The single most important question, I think, that one must ask one’s self about a character is what are they really afraid of?”Robert Towne via ∞
