Austin Kleon

I'd love to be a writer.

But that writing part, ooh, you know, I don't know about the writing when it should be the opposite way.

It's like, well, I love to write.

I don't know if I'm a writer or not, but I love to write.

I don't know if I'm an artist or not, but I love to draw.

If you can kind of like zoom in on what your verbs are and pay attention to them.

Yeah, I'm one of those.

Do you love to write or you love to have written?

No, I don't love to write.

I would rather do a lot of other things, but I know what writing gives me and I'm addicted to that.

I'm addicted to...

starting with a blank page and then you end up with something.

The best days are when you get the blank page in front of you.

And by the time you're done, you're like, I didn't even know that's what I thought.

But that's what I think.

You learn in the, so people have this wrong idea about writing and we teach writing terribly in school, which is we have the ideas and you gather up your ideas and then you just have to get them down on paper.

When what it really is is the act of writing, it is the act of thinking.

And I think that's why people hate it so much is that when you're really sitting down and writing, you have to really think about what it is that you're actually trying to say and what it is that you actually really think.

And that's the really hard part.

So I guess maybe I do like writing.