Success is something that you attract, not something that you try to chase or catch.

Never be boring. Be ridiculous. Absurd. But never be boring.

Pursuing a CAREER in the arts — any art, pick the art — takes a certain amount of delusion. Not as a hobby. Not for fun. But in the pursuit of an all-the-chips-in career. And I don't mean delusion in a derogatory manner. In this sense, it's a skill.

Sama on how to be successful. Self belief that looks like delusion to others is important. https://t.co/GZ1nV4sJ4o

Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false voices and wrong notes behind, and so underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are mean

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Every person needs to go through at least one year of excruciating uncertainty, where each day is adorned by an uncomfortable layer of mental doubt One must experience what it's like to believe it's all over, only to eventually make it out alive through the mere act of patience… Show more