"Write the book you want to read" — Austin Kleon

"Write the book you want to read"

— Austin Kleon

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57 Quotes by Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more…
If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd…
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They…
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to…
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody…
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some…
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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