Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was one of the founders of the United States, and also a printer, inventor and scientist. Alongside political work he experimented with electricity, founded the first public library in America, and for years published Poor Richard's Almanack, a collection of practical advice and sayings that passed into everyday speech.
About this theme: Creativity
Creativity is usually discussed as inspiration arriving from outside, and least often as what it mostly is: work done on days when it does not want to be done. The tension is old. Antiquity had muses, Romanticism had genius, and the twentieth century had the working habits of writers who rose at five because otherwise nothing happened at all.
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- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.— Rumi
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
- You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.— Friedrich Nietzsche
- Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.— Nikola Tesla