Index Cards
Authors use index cards for all kinds of things: to track ideas, to plot novels, to jot down random lines that might, with luck, turn into something later. In my office at UNL, where I do not do any creative writing (can't manage it; too industrial, too public), I use index cards to post little statements that motivate me and keep me on track.
Here are my current favorites, in case any might possibly be useful, inspiring, or comforting to you:
And this last one, my personal favorite:
Here are my current favorites, in case any might possibly be useful, inspiring, or comforting to you:
Fearlessness is the first prerequisite to a spiritual life.
~Gandhi
~Gandhi
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
~Simone Weil
~Simone Weil
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
~Henry Miller
~Henry Miller
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
~Pablo Casals
~Pablo Casals
Where any view of Money exists, Art cannot be carried on, but War only.
~William Blake
~William Blake
I never feel age. If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
~Louise Nevelson
~Louise Nevelson
Yes, it took a certain courage, but as a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool . . . yes, to be a fool, that perhaps requires the greatest courage.
~Anne Sexton
~Anne Sexton
And this last one, my personal favorite:
There is no reason, no need, to make a contest out of anything.
~Cheri Huber
~Cheri Huber
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