Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

strips, because once the computer is involved, “things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.”

write the story you want to read.

Make stuff every day. Know you’re going to suck for a while.

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” —Jessica Hische

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time. Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it’s going to suck for a while—it’s going to suck until you get back into the flow.

if you love different things, you just keep spending time with them. “Let them talk to each other. Something will begin to happen.”

never take my shirts to the cleaners. I love ironing my shirts—it’s so boring, I almost always get good ideas.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us—we start editing ideas before we have them.