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# writing = creating a gift
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/writing-creating-a-gift/
- Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-04T17:48:18.000Z
- Description: ... your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but to the gift itself. ~ John Green
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: on writing

I came across a precious thing on the Internet today, courtesy of [Brain Pickings](http://www.brainpickings.org/), who wrote in her [blog](http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/14/john-green-advice-on-making/) about [John Green](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FGreen%5F%28author%29) and his advice to aspiring writers and creators.

And I read it, drunk and feeling like I were in another world, and I think it was the most beautiful piece of thing I had read in a while.

So here goes ....

> "Every single day, I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how to become a writer, and here is the only advice I can give: Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people — and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

> Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won’t — and if they don’t notice, I know it’s frustrating. But, ultimately, that doesn’t change anything — because your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but to the gift itself."

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