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Never waste a midlife crisis
John Higgs on the decision to become a full-time writer.
Austin Kleon
My long-awaited followup to the Steal Like an Artist trilogy is in bookstores today!
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Start before you think you’re ready
On the awful temptation to keep researching indefinitely.
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Artists must be allowed to make bad work
Art critic David Sylvester on the perils of working too much in the public eye.
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Find a new city
There’s a very rom antic American story that I love, that lots of a rtists who are young and starting out love, too, and it goes like this: Move to the Big City with nothing, make friends, make art, struggle, but make it. That’s the kind of story told in Patti Smith’s wonderful memoir, Just Kids .
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Reading with a pencil
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. —George Steiner
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Something small, every day (2013)
It takes time to do anything worthwhile, but thankfully, we don’t need it all in one chunk. So this year, forget about the year as a whole. Forget about months and forget about weeks.