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“Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.”

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Damon Dash is an entrepreneur born on May 3, 1971. He is renowned for his success in the music and entertainment industry, serving as the founder of Roc-A-Fella Records and a senior executive at Def Jam Recordings. more

“I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.”

Thinking Giving Art Remember Artist Rooms Accepting Fans Keys And Love You Like It Open Relationship

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.”

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Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.”

Way Hands Results Easier Our Future Your Future Way Forward

Author:Seth Godin

“Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.”

Thinking Writing Mind Home Grows Behinds Fiction Four Alive Twenties Occupation Fiction Writing Always Thinking Always With You

Author:Terry Brooks

“Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.”

Knows World Way Best Way

Author:John Goodman

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

Writing Long Self Jobs Opportunity Difficult Fiction Doubt Ocean Lonely Plenty Crossings Writing Fiction Self-doubt Bathtubs Atlantic Ocean

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.”

Thinking Hard Great Things

Author:Katy Perry

“The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.”

Thinking Important Ideas Done Lying Artist Interest Influence Ocean Originals Embrace Wave Being Original

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”

Stories Age Spiritual Novel Share Expression Intellectual Mirrors Species Guides Supreme Invention Explanation Pessimism Aesthetic

Author:Richard Flanagan

“I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.”

Different Personality Being Yourself Hats Just Be Yourself

Author:Margaret Atwood

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