create

If you want to make a masterpiece, you have to be willing to create a little
garbage along the way.

- James Clear

the best time

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." 

                                                                 - Chinese Proverb 

 Concentrate on these 35 things: From The Mission

baldwin on writing

"Something that irritates you and won’t let you go. That’s the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

 James Baldwin gave much to the world.

Much of that self-revelation, Baldwin points out, happens not during the first outpour of writing but during the grueling process of rewriting.