The Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

What it’s About

Elizabeth Gilbert's writing process; the good, the bad, and the very bad moments.

Favorite Quotes

I like these quotes because they are optimistic about challenging yourself and not getting stuck in what you think are the failures of your life, but instead to persevere even if you aren’t rewarded every 5 minutes.

• “Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?”The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?”

• “Make space for all these paradoxes to be equally true inside your soul, and I promise—you can make anything.” - If I think i can fail, then I can think i can succeed.

• “And any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.

• “Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.”

• “What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it’s sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.”

Read this if…

You’re delaying learning a new language or trying a new hobby, for whatever reason you’re not doing it, nothing you try is going to look great the first time, that’s why it’s better to get started and see what happens.