“I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.”
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“... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.”
“I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.”
“No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?”
“I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.”
“I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.”
“I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.”
“Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.”
“I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.”
“Think big. Start small.”
“Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.”
“I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.”
“Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.”
“I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.”
“Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.”
“I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.”
“For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.”
“In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.”
“I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what I'm doing. Because I think it stifles you creatively. I don't want to have to care too much about that. All I care about is what the fans think. It's really all I care about, honestly.”
“I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.”