From the category archives:

Words of Wisdom

The Courage to Create

by Darren W. Miller on February 9, 2010

“To create one’s own world, in any of the arts, takes courage.”
—Georgia O’Keeffe

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Hunting for Inspiration

by Darren W. Miller on January 28, 2010

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
—Jack London

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Creativity Begets Creativity

by Darren W. Miller on January 23, 2010

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
—Maya Angelou

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Take an Obsessive Pride

by Darren W. Miller on January 19, 2010

“You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you’ve written against the various middlemen—editors, agents and publishers—whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not as high.”—William Zinsser

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The Sense of the Beautiful

by Darren W. Miller on January 12, 2010

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldy cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Don’t Think, Just Create

by Darren W. Miller on October 21, 2009

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”—Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

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A Lifetime of Music

by Darren W. Miller on October 16, 2009

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”—Sergei Rachmaninov

Sergei Rachmaninov

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Getting the Good Stuff

by Darren W. Miller on September 4, 2009

“You’d like to be able to go to work and have everything be smooth, but there’s some weird artistic gene in some of us. It can feel like a curse, because it makes you push yourself to make things better and not allow them to be easy. That’s how you get the good stuff.”—Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder (photo by Danny Clinch)

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When I Paint My Masterpiece

by Darren W. Miller on September 2, 2009

“In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”—Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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A Reminder for Beginners

by Darren W. Miller on May 22, 2009

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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