[오늘의 한문장] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

But this does not mean that unless you began your creative endeavors in your twenties, it’s too late! - P143

Thus, people will stick you i...

Thus, people will stick you into all sorts of boxes. They’ll call you a genius, or a fraud, or an amateur, or a pretender, or a wannabe, or a has-been, or a hobbyist, or an also-ran, or a rising star, or a master of reinvention. - P120

Actually, pigeonholing is something people need to do in order to feel that they have set the chaos of existence into some kind of reassuring order. - P120

Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to." Actually, don’t even bother answering. Just keep doing your thing. - P121

Because, in the end, it’s just creativity. Or, as John Lennon once said about the Beatles, "We were just a band!" - P126

Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it’s a gift. It’s the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. - P128

It doesn’t discourage me in the least, in other words, to know that my life’s work is arguably useless. All it does is make me want to play. - P128

[오늘의 한문장] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

"Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy the films you make, and it’s certainly not the world’s obligation to pay for your dreams. Nobody wants to hear it. Steal a camera if you must, but stop whining and get back to work." - P115

We make things because we lik...

We make things because we like making things. - P87

All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal’s office to live a creative life. - P89

No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. - P92

The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life. - P92

I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. - P98

So take your insecurities and your fears and hold them upside down by their ankles and shake yourself free of all your cumbersome ideas about what you require (and how much you need to pay) in order to become creatively legitimate. - P108

All I had to do in order to learn from Dickens was to spend years privately studying his novels like they were holy scripture, and then to practice like the devil on my own. - P108

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea—that it is ultimately entirely up to you—the better off you’ll be. - P110

[오늘의 한문장] The Vulnerables : 'As funny as it is painfully honest' (Paula Hawkins)

Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read.
Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. - P3