Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

You can live a long life, making and doing really cool things the entire time. You might earn a living with your pursuits or you might not, but you can recognize that this is not really the point. And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.

I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

I only do one thing. I live a creative life. When you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.’ …

Creativity wants to flip the mundane world upside down and turn it inside out, and that’s exactly what a trickster does best.