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Today's Words of Wisdom from Nick Cave - "There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Brontez Purnell - "There’s something about creation that brings something nurturing back to your life, where it reminds you that we are put on earth to do more than just survive..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Katherine Center - "And then I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it, whatever it was, and then making yourself follow through.

So I decided something right then: every chance you take is a choice, a choice to decide who you are."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley - "If you just sit down in front of the screen and read what you wrote yesterday, that’s enough. Writing is all about the unconscious, and the unconscious should be checking in with the story every day. So if you write ten pages, great..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Austin Kleon - “The great thing about dead or remote masters is that they can’t refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Stephen Marche - “The first job of a writer is to write. The second job is to persevere. If you want to write, or if you want to know what it’s like to write, you’re going to have to walk away from the paths of glory into the dark wilderness. Because that’s where it is.”

Today's Words of Wisdom from Vincent Van Gogh - "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Samantha Clark - "So, no matter the noise that comes from outside, whatever the work is that you’re drawn to offer in these times, whatever marathon you’re running, keep putting one foot in front of the other. Make time for it in your schedule and stick to it.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from George Orwell - "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Shigesato Itol - "If you tell funny stories, you're a comedian. If you sing a song you like, it's music. Move your body and a dance begins. Draw something you like on a scrap of paper, and that's art. Once you or I begin, that's all it takes."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Paul Auster - "The essence of being an artist is to confront the thing you're trying to do, to tackle it head on. And in wrestling with these things, you manage to make something that's good - well, it will have its own beauty..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Anne Lamott - "Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Amy Poehler - "Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is. You might be really good..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Matt Bell - "Writing a book is rarely a linear process, and pretending it is can be a source of misery for many writers."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Steven Pressfield - "At the end of the day, I ask myself only one question. I don't ask myself, 'Did I write anything good today?' I don't ask myself, 'Did I write a lot today?' I only ask myself, 'Did I overcome resistance today?'"

Today's Words of Wisdom from L.K. Madigan - “The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until you get them just right. Both days belong in the writing life..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Jacqueline Woodson - "We are living in noisy time with little space for silence. Phones in our bathrooms, the distraction of clicking on to social media when the writing gets hard, news flashes and plane crashes and the feeling like the world is ending..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Norman Cousins - "The writer, perhaps more than any of his fellow artists, has access to the human subconscious. His words sink deep, shaping dreams, easing the pain of loneliness, banishing incantations and omens, keeping alive the memories of the race,.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Adam Grant - "I was afraid to write my first book 'What if no one reads it?'. I was afraid to give my first TED talks - then I was afraid of my anxiety: 'What if I'm so nervous my breathing sounds like Darth Vadar?'.."

Todays Words of Wisdom from Rachel Blackmore - "I decided it was a now-or-never situation and that I had to commit. I couldn’t just keep thinking, ‘one day I will.’ I had to turn that into, ‘today I am going to..'.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Pyotr Tchaikovsky - "We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Hugo Hamilton - "Unless we tell our story, then we don’t exist. If you don’t have somebody to talk to, if you don’t have somebody listening to your story, then you effectively disappear. You become voiceless. I had the experience as a child of becoming voiceless..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from David Whyte - "Routine that carries the timeless and the exploratory, can become the central foundation of keeping a relationship alive, of writing a book, raising a family, building a house. We make a miracle out of simply turning up.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Jeanette Winterson - "If we can’t keep our imagination alive we will die. Imagination sees past the hard boundary and into a different place. Imagination says why not? Imagination doesn’t destroy. Imagination creates [...]"

Today's Words of Wisdom from David Perell - "Do not focus on how many people are reading your stuff. Focus on the quality of people who are reading your stuff. This is what happens to everybody, including me.."

Today's Worlds of Wisdom from Austin Kleon - "The 'deep work' and '10,000 hours' people have poisoned the creative mind with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Nina McConigley - "Some things that we must do to get the work done are, in fact, weird. Many things bring the light. Some bring just enough light that you are no longer afraid. The shadowy light that says, Don't be scared, write it!"

Today's Words of Wisdom from Lauren Francis-Sharma "...Every time I begin, I think about how I cannot believe this doesn't get any easier! I am stunned when I start a new book as I realize once again that there is simply no way around spending months or years in the same chair."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Harriet Beecher Stowe - "When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn."

Today's Words of Wisdom from John Green - "Even if its’s a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward—ever smaller but everlasting..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Maggie Smith - Begin where you are, as you are. That’s more than enough. And if, for whatever reason, the words aren’t coming right now, trust that they’ll be back. They always come back.

Today's Words of Wisdom from Gabino Iglesias - "Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Kate Mosse - The modern world is noisy and it's demanding and it's clamorous... And so finding that peace as a writer or indeed, of course, it could be as a composer or an artist in any other field, is essential because it's only then.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from David Lynch - “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Frederic Tuten - “I feel at this crazy time that I’m beginning again, with a wish to not repeat myself, to not repeat any formulas for fiction or painting. I write every day. The work could be terrible; it could be nothing. I could be fooling myself..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Stephen King - "Stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd - "That you can learn to write better is one of our fundamental assumptions. No sensible person would deny the mystery of talent, or for that matter the mystery of inspiration..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from James Clear - "Writing is the superpower of humankind. It is our truest form of magic. Writing allows you to conjure up something of value where nothing previously existed..."

It’s February, you’ve made it through the darkest 10 weeks of the year—no small feat. Now, let the light slip through. Write in the margins of your days, let yourself be raw, pour another cup of tea, stay warm. Remember, it only takes the smallest spark to set the page alight.

Today's Words of Wisdom from Beth Kempton - "To write in service of the writing, not the ego, is it radical act. What if we gathered up all the energy we usually spent worrying about what other people think and poured it into our writing?.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Virginia Woolf - “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Alastair Humphreys - "The Norwegians have a phrase that encapsulates the difficulty of starting a journey. Those masters of tough expeditions have put a name to the struggle of setting out from your warm, comfortable, familiar house into the cold, frightening outdoors.."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Kirsten W. Larson: "The world needs your stories. Your book, the one you are revising right this very minute, is going to change some kid's life. That child will read your book by flashlight under the covers or carry it like a security blanket in their backpack..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Julie Fredrickson - "'Can I see you showing up every single day and making just a little bit of progress?' People so underestimate the value of compounding or if you just do a little bit, show up, do something, show up the next day, it changes everything..."

Today's Words of Wisdom from Rupi Kaur - your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if your soul likes your work it's about how honest you are with yourself and you must never trade honesty for relatability

Today's Words of Wisdom from Robert Wilson - "Boredom is one of our strongest motivations. What did you want to get away from? What were you looking for? Degrees of happiness and disappointment, joy and anger, love and hate. You know, the big emotions that make things happen and break things down."

Today's Words of Wisdom from David Foster Wallace - “When you write fiction, you’re telling a lie. It’s a game, but you must get the facts straight. The reader doesn’t want to be reminded that it’s a lie. It must be convincing, or the story will never take off in the reader’s mind.”

Today's Words of Wisdom from Olga Tokarczuk - "Writing is a method of deep seeing, of uncovering the layers of meaning beneath reality. To write is to take part in the constant re-creation of the world. Stories shape how we understand what is possible.."