Today's prompt is "favorite quote", and sifting through my long list of favorite quotations on my Facebook profile, I find myself most drawn to this one: "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
Why? Because as an artist/author/human being, I find this to be true on a daily basis. Inspiration is fleeting, and it's a pain to hang on to, beating it into submission is the only real option.
Here are a few of my other favorite quotes:
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” - C.S. Lewis
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." - Beatrix Potter
"Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational television without the aid of caffeine." - Vladimir Tod
"I am living proof that it is possible to profit from being a high school freak." - Meg Cabot
And then, just for the lols, I throw in one of my own quotes:
"Nerdiness is not defined by what you love, but how you love it." - Holly Van Leer
Is it sad that I love my own quotes?
