If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Write...

then for God's sake, write SOMETHING.


ANYTHING.


Seriously.  Don't just sit there, on your couch, doubting your ability to connect with the rest of the world.  That's silly.


If you have a dream, then start paddling.  Even if you're going in the wrong direction, your arms will be stronger once you realize it's time to paddle the other way.


Love doing something without apologizing for the quality of your product.  Nobody pops out a 30 year-old man.  If you want to raise a child, you have to guide it during all the times that it makes mistakes.


That is writing.  That is creativity.  You start an idea with the same irresponsibility as the sex that creates a child. 


The struggle of raising that child -- and teaching and guiding it, through all of its mistakes -- is what being an artist is. 


It is no more glamorous than being a parent.


We're all rooting for ourselves.


Because our art is what our childrens' worlds will be made of.


Like the spaghetti houses, in that one children's book. 


With that old Italian lady.
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Our art is spaghetti houses.