'Once you were a child. Once you

knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions

because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them.

Become that child again: even now.' —C.S. Lewis

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

—Ibn Battuta

“If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious mind … then what are the stories that we write?”

—Stephanie Carty, The Writing Mirror

“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.

You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts and parts.

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.

And all of a sudden you’re desperat

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it!

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.

Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Ke

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha