Inspiration - Page 3 of 5 - Hunter Valley Writers

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.

Morning Pages

The bedrock tool of a creative recovery is a daily practice called Morning Pages. Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages – they are not high art. They are not even “writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your …

Enough heart

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. Ted Hughes, The Letters of Ted Hughes

Exercise the writing muscle

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. Jane Yolen

Writers are here to challenge

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job. Jeanette Winterson