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“Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?” The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?” Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth—not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? There is always that alternative, after all.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn’t evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion