As the year draws to a close, I have one final inspiring quotation to share. This one comes from Gin from Perfume and Cigarettes:
This says it all, right here. Just keep writing. Never stop.
And so, as another new year dawns, that’s exactly what I’ll do. Just keep writing. Never stop.
What about you?
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Today’s quote is one of my absolute favorites to come from this project, and it’s courtesy of Katie M. Dean:
Seriously. There is so much I love about this quote that I don’t even know where to begin. It was like getting hit by lightning, a slap in the face of pure duh.
Like, why hadn’t I thought of this sooner?
This is quite possible one of the best quotes I have ever read. About anything. And I have a whole spiral-bound notebook full of quotations that I’ve been keeping for the better part of two decades – this one trumps them all.
Love. This.
What is your absolutely positively all-time favorite quote?
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Today’s inspirational quote comes from Jimbongo:
Never give up! Never surrender!
This should be our battle cry as creatives. Never give up. No matter what. You can do eet!
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Today’s quote is from Momzen Mutterings, and is really rather fabulous:
I love this way of thinking about things. My brain hides things from me all the time – story ideas, doctor appointments, the shirt I laid out on the bed five minutes ago – so why should a gift or a talent be any different?
Like the old saying goes, use it or lose it. I didn’t use all that Spanish I learned once upon a time, and now I’ve lost it. It turns out that my brain hid that from me, too, because as soon as I started studying it again? It came back to me. It’s like pulling teeth sometimes trying to remember how to, say, conjugate a stem-changing verb, but eventually I remember.
What about you – have you lost something you didn’t use often? Did it come back to you?
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Today’s quote comes from Martha Graham, who was not a writer but a dancer, and it’s courtesy of the lovely Jeanne Pascale:
I’d never heard of Martha Graham when I read this quote, so I did a little Googling and found her Wikipedia entry, which had this to say:
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts,[1][2] the influence of Stravinsky on music, and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture.[3]
She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan’s Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed, “I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.” [4]
Her style, the Graham technique, fundamentally reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.[5]
A brilliant choreographer, Ms. Graham may have been referring to dance in her quotation above, but it certainly applies to writing as well. Indeed, it applies to any endeavor in life.
Do you have any favorite quotes, about writing or otherwise?
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Today’s quotation comes from Boundrose:
I find this very, very easy to forget. There are loads of things I forget every day, but this should never be one of them.
What about you – do you need reminders to keep pushing forward? What form do your reminders take?
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You all are some pretty fantastic people. Did you know that?
Well, it’s true. You are. And I want to share your fabulosity. 🙂
My recent-ish (okay, it’s from September) post about writing (or rather, about my lack of recent(ish) writing) has elicited a bunch of crazy awesome comments full of inspiration and encouragement. And, as a result of my efforts to be more positive about pretty much everything in 2017 than I was in 2016, I’ve picked out some of the best bits of the comment section on that particular post and turned them into pretty, pretty pictures.
I’m going to unveil them one by one for the next few months. First up is a quote from Ernest Hemingway, courtesy of Talewriter:
There is just so much truth to this. I hope that, one day, I’ll be much closer to being a master than I am right now, but I suppose that’s really all any of us can say, regardless of whatever it is we’re trying to master. And despite what he said, I’ve got to think that Hemingway was about as much a master of the English language as anyone can hope to be.
So: Practice being masterful. That’s one of my goals for 2017. Because after all, practice makes perfect, right?
What are you going to try to master this year?
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 