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- Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
- Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
- You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
- The best way to get approval is not to need it.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
- People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
- People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
- The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
- Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
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