reminders for myself
I used to struggle w needing to be “creative” or “original” in my work. At some point I had a breakthrough that really helped me: I cannot repeat an idea, no matter how basic or common, without imparting some of my worldview into it.
Emmett Sheartwitter.com
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
The past stays and echoes even as modernity roars ahead.
Matt Haig • How to Stop Time
She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
The spiral that Jason Mraz spoke of