The more lightly you can pass...

The more lightly you can pass that time, the brighter your existence becomes. - P232

(Truman Capote stated it even more bluntly: "Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the backyard and shot it.") - P232

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. - P233

So how do you find the inspiration to work when your passion has flagged? This is where curiosity comes in. - P236

The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than the stakes of passion. - P237

There were no goose bumps, no hairs standing up on the back of my neck, no butterflies in my stomach. There was no miracle. It was like Saint Paul rode his horse all the way to Damascus and nothing happened, except maybe it rained a bit. Most days, this is what life is like. - P240

It’s Big Magic on a quieter scale, and on a slower scale, but make no mistake about it—it’s still Big Magic. - P245

Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go. - P245

Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting. - P246

Don’t let go of your courage the moment things stop being easy or rewarding. Because that moment? That’s the moment when interesting begins. - P247

[오늘의 한문장] 단 3개의 미국 ETF로 은퇴하라

나스닥100 지수에 무게 중심을 두되, 특정 섹터의 성장성을 활용할 수 있는 테마형 ETF를 적절히 포함하라 - <단 3개의 미국 ETF로 은퇴하라>, 김지훈(포메뽀꼬) - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/296db438fb034015 - P261

[오늘의 한문장] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

A big, freaky, wonderful game. Which is fine, because the trickster likes freaky. Freaky is his natural environment. The martyr hates freaky. The martyr wants to kill freaky. And in so doing, he all too often ends up killing himself. - P225

[오늘의 한문장] Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Ibelieve that the original human impulse for creativity was born out of pure trickster energy. - P223

[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt. - P7