While driving to the post office this afternoon, I caught up with The Writer’s Almanac, a podcast on which I’m way behind. So I only today got to hear the following inspirational quote read by Garrison Keillor on November 22, 2014, which was André Gide’s 145th birthday:

Gide’s advice was—

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

I’ll do my best to keep that in mind as I move forward.