Candace Bushnell

The author of Sex and the City gave a talk today. One thing she said that I thought was really profound: "No task is too small. Be the best at what you're doing at the moment, because that will mean you can be the best at bigger things." (paraphrase)

It seems like essential advice for an aspiring writer. And probably (especially?) for actors or musicians or other artists as well. How else can your work stay meaningful to you, when by all indices, it's going nowhere? For Bushnell, it was also the way new opportunities opened up for her.