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The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.”
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
“Whether it will ever be recognizable by anyone else I don’t know, but I feel that great new things are happening very quietly inside me. And I know these things have a way, like the maple tree, of finally bursting out in some form.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
“The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.” —Brian Michael Bendis
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
the notebooks do provide a pretty good snapshot of a creative brain moving very fast, while serving as an instrument of grounding and refinement.
Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
You can reuse the book’s content as its own marketing You can begin doing this very early, even with rough drafts and tiny excerpts Austin Kleon — whose four nonfiction books, including the wonderful Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, have sold over a million copies — puts it perfectly: Once a day, after you’ve don
... See moreRob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom. Write a song on your lunch break. Paint a painting with only one color. Start a business without any start-up capital. Shoot a movie with your iPhone and a few of your friends. Bui
... See moreAustin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
she can share her sketches and works-in-progress, post pictures of her studio, or blog about her influences, inspiration, and tools.