1
You can never finish a story or a poem – you can only abandon it.
2
Love and writing don’t always get along – sometimes you have to choose.
3
To aim for perfection in writing (beyond grammatical perfection) is to rewrite the fun out of writing.
4
Writing is a refined addiction but it is an addiction nevertheless – it can be unhealthy in a most insidious way.
5
You can’t write better just by writing more. To improve, you need to create spaces around your writing and to give yourself time.
6
What you want to write is not necessarily what others want to read, but what you need to write is, sometimes at least, exactly what others need to read.
7
Writing is a double-edged sword that can defend you from the world but that can also hurt those who want to get close to you.
8
It is only reasonable for most people around you not to understand what you are doing so many hours alone in your room.
9
If you are not careful, writing can become a white hole that sucks you in, effacing your social identity.
10
Writing is not an external act, even if its product may be a book, an article, or a blog post – writing is an internal act of escapism and, at the same time, of self-validation. It is pretending to be someone else only so that you can keep returning to yourself every day.
boy with a hat 
Number 1 is also true for paintings! 🙂