David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Craft & work
What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often?
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Read by field
Everyone
Science and medicine 4
Arts and letters 8
Politics and public life 3
Business and finance 6
Technology 7
Sport 4
Read by age
Any age
Before thirty 1
In their thirties 6
In their forties 4
In their fifties 8
In their sixties 4
Seventy and beyond 5
Nick Cave
Songwriter, musician and novelist
Many creative people, especially the young, may feel their chaotic or disordered relationship with the world is indispensable to their creative freedom. The more anarchic, the better! However, after considerable fieldwork in this area, I have yet to find it so. I have come to understand that the muscle of the imagination is strengthened through resistance, discipline and order.
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