I once had a workspace in a converted closet. I loved it. On the wall, I started collecting quotes that I found inspiring, until they filled up two corkboards and spilled over onto notebooks.
Here, I’ve decided to create an Inspiration Wall that I can share with you. Whenever I come across a few words that tug at my heart or my WriterBrain, I’ll post them here for you.
“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your personality. Be active, be energetic…and you will accomplish your mission.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Cicero
“There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.” – Li-Young Lee
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.”
- William Faulkner
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. – Oscar Wilde
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh
There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll
