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    Hilary Mantel
    “If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.”
    ― Hilary Mantel
    tags: creativity, distraction, inspiration, openness, problem-solving, procrastination, writers-block
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    Richard Bach
    “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: fiction, inspiration, on-fiction, values
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  • #3
    “All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: art, humour, interpretation
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    Helen Keller
    “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: educator, inspirational
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    Craig Thompson
    “How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
    ― Craig Thompson, Blankets
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: creativity, inspirational, writing
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  • #7
    Malala Yousafzai
    “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
    ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: care-enough, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, make-things-happen, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: achieve, achievement, achieving, ambition, goals, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspiring, life, lifestyle, living, meaning, motivate, motivating, motivation, motivational, purpose, purpose-in-life, reason, reason-to-breathe, reason-to-live, sacrifice, success, successful-living
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    Don Roff
    “Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: humor, inspirational, writing
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    Alan Bennett
    “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books, imagination, inspiration
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    Leo Rosten
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: inspirational, purpose, truth
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  • #13
    Stephen King
    “To write is human, to edit is divine.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspirational
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    Eudora Welty
    “It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
    ― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
    tags: books, creativity, inspiration, literature, reading, storytelling, writing
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    André Gide
    “Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: writing
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational, journalism, myth, story, truth-telling
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    Randall Munroe
    “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.”
    ― Randall Munroe, xkcd: volume 0
    tags: inspirational, life, xkcd
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    Albert Camus
    “A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #19
    Ian Wallace
    “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    ― Ian Wallace
    tags: fitting-in, inspirational, love-yourself
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    Cesare Pavese
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    ― Cesare Pavese
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan
    tags: inspirational
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    Bill Gates
    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: bill-gates, inspirational, life
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    Bill Hicks
    “We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”
    ― Bill Hicks
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
    tags: creative-process, habit, inspiration, persistence, writing
    556 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: courage, inspiration, love, stories
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: adversity, failure, future, harvard-commencement-speech, hope, inspirational, life-lessons, rock-bottom
    441 likes

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  • #27
    Nick Vujicic
    “If you can't get a miracle, become one.”
    ― Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Salvador Dalí
    “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
    ― Salvador Dali
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  • #29
    Chad Sugg
    “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
    ― Chad Sugg
    tags: autumn, encourage, fall, inspirational, life, love, nature, trees
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  • #30
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence
    872 likes



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