He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
Right now I'm just trying to survive, I know I'm gonna get there, dead or alive.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.