“Reminder: A creative career is a lot like surfing. Most of it is about paddling like hell, trying not to drown, and waiting for just the right moment to stand. The surfing, although exhilarating, is the rarest, briefest part.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“Everyone gets rejected. From a story idea that gets quashed to the pitch that doesn’t resonate to the deal that falls apart. Thing is, successful/established creators shrug it off. A creative career is a marathon, not a sprint.”— J.T. Ellison, twitter.com
“There is absolutely zero way to predict how your creative career will go. You could be read by a producer and get a movie tomorrow. You could hit it big 10 years from now. No one knows. The anxiety, of course, comes from the fact that it's hard to plan a future around something no one knows anything…”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com