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1. “I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There’s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.” Twyla Tharp
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2. “I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.” Brenda Ueland
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3. “The amateur tweets. The pro works.” Steve Pressfield
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4. “Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.” Julia Cameron
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5. “Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist’s voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.” Eric Maisel
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6. “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.” Stephen King
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7. “The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.” Stella Adler
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8. “Fame is the thirst of youth.” Lord Byron
9. “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” Langston Hughes
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10. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” Lester Bangs
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