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- Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
- Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 21. Selling out is harder than it looks., 08-22-04
- Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself., 08-22-04
- It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04
- You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- 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
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