This month’s question: Do you have any quotes you use for inspiration?
Every once in a while I get stuck as a writer. Whether the right words are being elusive, or I’m stressed over something from my personal life (usually over finances), or I just can’t get focused. These are times when I look to quotes to help either jumpstart my creativity, or just get me in to a reflective mood which tend to get the words flowing.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”
~ Vanna Bonta
“Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” ~Jeb Dickerson
“Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
What about you? Do you have any favorite quotes?
A writer & her adolescent muse 
I Love this Carrie Ann! I actually have a board I keep above my desk with quotes and poems from writers I love. There is a lot of JK Rowling, a Sylvia Plath poem, William Carols Williams, Mary Oliver…the list goes on. From Amy Tan, “Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings, or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power”.
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I love quotes! For me they help change my perspective on certain things. I love your board idea! 🙂
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I’m a huge fan of quotes! I use one almost every time I start a blog post.
Cheers!
Mary at Play off the Page
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That’s an awesome idea about using a quote to write blog posts! 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by!
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I like the one about imagination being a shield against reality.
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That particular quote has been a cornerstone throughout my life 🙂
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