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"Don't say you don't have enough time. We're all busy, but we all get 24 hours a day. People often ask me, 'How do you find the time for all this?' And I answer, 'I look for it.' You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff — your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed. You might have to miss an episode of your favorite TV show, you might have to miss an hour of sleep, but you can find the time if you look for it."

Sometimes a book finds you at just the right time. When I first read Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, I was in a dark place and needed to find inspiration to DO something with my life. His book helped. I’ve been a huge fan ever since, and his new book, Keep Going, is equally great.

I was lucky enough to pick his brain one afternoon, talking about being creative in a negative political climate, how Henry David Thoreau is extremely millennial, and, of course, books.

Here's a mere snippet of the interview, published April 8, 2019, at Book Riot.

Neat!