"Sometimes all that saves me is being
willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful,
important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own
inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At
times like that the only way out is for me to decide, ‘. . . I can’t do
it right, so I’ll do it wrong. I can’t do it well, but I can do it badly.’ Sometimes,
with luck, while I’m sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.” -Katherine Dunn, author of Geek
Love
Quote discovered in Poets & Writers, Jan/Feb 2012
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