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Steal Like an Artist

By Austin Kleon

Nothing is original — and that's the permission you've been waiting for.

Kleon reframes influence as something to embrace rather than hide: collect what you love, remix it, and your own voice emerges in the overlap. It's short, generous and quietly freeing, especially for anyone paralysed by the idea that they have to invent from nothing. A book I'd hand to every nervous beginner.

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