Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Quotes

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

Bravery means doing something scary.

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that--whatever the outcome--you have traveled a noble path.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.

As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.