“Sometimes your destiny is wrapped up in a veil of fear to check if you really have the courage to face it.”
— Marcus Hades
“Trust my imagination. It knows the story better than I do.”
— Milli Thornton, @fearofwriting
“Found this sentiment in Goethe: If you think about writing while you’re writing, you’ll go mad. Think about it later when tidying up.”
— @FDbytheword
“I believe that my skill at taking ordinary words and using them to provoke thought or stir emotion is a divine gift that I should utilize more often, if not for profit, then to free my spirit.”
— Darryl Brown, Fear of Writing Online Course, Week 4, Assignment 1
“Mysterious part of creativity—once we set the wheels in motion, the same stuff imagination’s made of works silently to move us along a path.”
— Milli Thornton, @fearofwriting
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
— Charles R. Swindoll
“Writing makes me feel alive. It brings me into the moment and allows me to bask in it.”
— @natashadoodle
“Each time you write something, part of you grows. You’re training your artistic muscles to find your voice.”
— Pen Densham
“Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.”
— Joseph Chiltern Pearce
The Yoda in my mind says: “Energy follows thought . . . think about fun things & then fun energy will follow you.”
— Milli Thornton
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
“Don’t wait for the world to believe in you. Believe in yourself first. It’s faster and more efficient.”
— Milli Thornton, @fearofwriting
“If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
— @Robin_Goblin
“Failure is part of the creative process. If you’re afraid of it, you can’t really create.”
— Danny_DeVito
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time unlike, say, brain surgery.”
— Robert Cormier (1925-2000)
“If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all.”
— Anne Tyler, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist
“The “Li’l Ol Me” Syndrome: we tend to think everyone else has a more exotic background than we do.”
— Milli Thornton
“Go out into the world and run straight at whatever you fear the most.”
— Kerr Cuhulain
“Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen
“I wrote 2,623 words today. No one was murdered. There was no sex. But there was a ghost, an interrogation, and a mystery.”
— @LMEighmy
“Mama, look at that tree. It’s spooky!”
— My two-year-old grandson, about a dead tree in the park (am I proud of his language skills, or what?)
