“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
— Mary Lou Cook
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
— Peter Handke
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism of light, white hot, onto the paper.”
― Ray Bradbury
“Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.”
— Kim Edwards
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
— Umberto Eco
“There is something freeing about allowing ideas and events that I’m seeing in my imagination to take shape in the real world without a ton of pushing on my part. In the end, it’s about less striving and more allowing.”
— Nathalie Lussier
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.”
— Sir Ken Robinson