When art is disconnected from the human spirit, the work is a lie.

while making creative work might feel like riding an oceanic wave - it ebbs and flows with life - building a business is like growing a garden. it doesn't care about how bad the weather is. it just needs consistent care; someone to show up day in, day out and do the work.

“When you are truly in the elegant state of creation, you are no body, no thing, no time — you forget about yourself. You become pure consciousness, free from the chains of the identity that needs the outer reality to remember who it thinks it is.”

willingness to continue despite a mounting desire to stop

“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I felt if I didn't write nobody would accept me as a human being. Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing and love me for my writing.

"There is a long time in me between knowing and telling."

—Grace Paley

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

— Jung