M is for Magic

Whatever you do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.

{Frances Hodgson Burnett}

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

{Vita Sackville-West}

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

{Jules Renard}

When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.

{Albert Einstein}

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

{Jessamyn West}

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

{Starhawk}

Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.

{Marsha Norman}

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

{Emily Dickinson}

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.

{Judith Jamison}

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

{Jalai Ud-Din Rumi}

Wishing you many magical moments with your writing this weekend, Zigzaggers!

2011: M is for Memoir