Hi readers and writerly friends!

It’s no doubt, still a crazy time, even in October 2020, with another round of the pandemic creeping in and the election in November just around the corner, things just don’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. But today, we’re going to shove all of that gross-ness under the rug and talk about something fun, positive, and incredibly inspiring.

I got this idea from the lovely Shayla Raquel who wrote this kind of blog post first on her blog. You can check it out here! But I just thought it was such a wonderful and inspiring kind of post and I had plenty of amazing quotes myself, so I figured, why don’t I take a crack at it?

In her blog post, Shayla writes:

If you’ve ever been around someone who sprints toward his dreams, then you know he’s absolutely insane. Nothing will get in his way. Nothing can stop him. He will accomplish his goals because he knows no other way to live.

—Shayla Raquel, Curiouser Editing

I love this quote and it aptly describes me whenever I get in a writing mood. I can’t be stopped, not even by my friends and family, by hunger, sleep, or coffee.

Okay, that’s a little bit of a stretch. Coffee might be the only reason I stop writing when I get on a roll.

But it’s certainly true that us writers can learn a thing or two from dreamers:

1. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. “Failure is not an option. It’s inevitable.” — Randy Langley

3. “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” — Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabaret

4. “Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.” — Anthon St. Maarten

5. “Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?” — J.G. Ballard

6. “Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder

7. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”— Robert F. Kennedy

8. “I just want to live my life less like a list and more like a lyric.” — Emily Freeman (If you’ve seen my Instagram, then you know!)

9. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley

10. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable.” ― Christopher Reeve

11. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ― Harriet Tubman

12. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho

13. “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'” – George Bernard Shaw

14. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” — Maya Angelou

15. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision. ” ― Brian Tracy

16. “I’m not just a storyteller. I am story.” — Ronne Rock

17. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”— Janet Fitch

18. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” — Gena Showalter

19. “If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”– Henry David Thoreau

20. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”– Stephen King

Wow, just wow.

I feel pretty darn inspired right now, what about you? Which quote was your favorite from this list? They were all such great quotes and amazing message, I’m kinda mad I didn’t come up with them myself! Buuut I did make this handy-dandy graphic so you can print it off and pin it up next to your writing space. This way you’ll have a ton of amazing quotes to pick you up when writing gets difficult.

Aren’t these quotes just everything? Click the collage below to download your copy so you can pin it up in your writing area so you never lose inspo!

Next week in Freelancing, I will have an in-depth, dedicated blog post for what to do when this happens, but sometimes motivational quotes about dreamers, writing, and overcoming failure can really help us gain a better perspective. Let me know your thoughts on this post in the comments below and don’t forget to check out Shayla’s post here!

Keep your head up and keep writing, dreamers. See you next week. <3

Thumbnail photo by Cottonbro.

—Payton