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“Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
- I worried about the next deadline, the next idea, the next story. There wasn't a moment for the next fourteen or fifteen years that I wasn't writing something in my head, or wondering about it. And I didn't stop and look around and go, this is really fun. I wish I'd enjoyed it more. It's been an amazing ride. But there were parts of the ride I miss... See more
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- And where would be the fun in making something you knew was going to work?
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- The problems of success. They're real, and with luck you'll experience them. The point where you stop saying yes to everything, because now the bottles you threw in the ocean are all coming back, and have to learn to say no.
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- The things I did because I was excited, and wanted to see them exist in reality have never let me down, and I've never regretted the time I spent on any of them.
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- While you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.
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- I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something. And the mistakes in themselves can be useful.
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened the Fraud Police
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
- If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that.
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