Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or that – but you are the only you.
Neil Gaiman (via writersyoga)
Billy Collins, the former Poet Laureate, said much the same thing at a talk once. Write the thing only you can write.
(via ursulavernon)