Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.