Inspiring Quotes 3

From Kate's Writing Crate…

 

Here are some quotes that inspire me:

 

 

Genius…means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

                                                        --William James

 

 

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

                                              --James Fitzjames Stephen

 

 

I never know when I sit down just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

                                                        --D. H. Lawrence

 

 

I think the writer must serve the inarticulate.

                                                        --Nelson Algren

 

 

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

                                                        --Henry David Thoreau

 

 

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

                                                        --Sydney Smith

 

 

As soon as you connect with your true subject, you will write.

                                        --Joyce Carol Oates

 

 

I am convinced more and more every day that fine writing is, next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

                                                        --John Keats

 

 

Essays are experiments in making sense of things.

                                                        --Scot Russell Sanders

 

 

Man's mind, stretched to new ideas, never goes back to its original dimensions.

                                                        --Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

 

What quotes inspire you? Keep them in your Common Book.