Austin Kleon

I mean, writing's difficult.

It's not like digging a ditch, although digging a ditch has its, you know, manual labor is actually a nice alternative to writing.

Like, I always love to, like, help my wife out in the garden and stuff after a long day of writing, because it's, like, something to do with your hands and yourself.

when you work with your brain all day, it's like very difficult to like kind of decouple that at the end or kind of wind down.

That's why so many writers are alcoholics.

So you got to find a healthier way to turn your brain off at the end of the day.

I'm thinking about that question.

Do you like writing?

Yeah, I think I do, actually.

I just like to whine a lot.

I'm like other writers.

You know, writers love to whine about writing just about as much as they like to write, I think.

People like to complain, you know, it's, it's cathartic in some ways and misery loves company.

Yeah.

Well, the first thing, and this is going to sound really dumb, you got to have the typewriter first.

Yeah.

Like this is something that we don't really think about when we get older, but you got to have the toy in order to play.

You know, all my typewriters are like, I found at the thrift store.

This is my favorite back here.

This is my Smith Corona.