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I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. ↗

— Ron Koertge

#writing #inspirational

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#faith

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#on-writing #poet #poetry #quotes #r-m-engelhardt

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#motivational #productivity #inspirational

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#life-lessons #mr-moscowitz #suffering #inspirational

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #writing #inspirational

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#inner #inspirational #lighthearted #self #whisper

Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY! ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#humor-inspirational #writing-craft #humor

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosophers like Cioran or even Carl Schmitt, read newspapers, read those who despise, dismiss or simply ignore poetry and try to understand why they do it. Read your enemies, read those who reinforce your sense of what's evolving in poetry, and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are. ↗

— Adam Zagajewski

#poetry #reading #inspirational

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness