🌻Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert🌻 • 🌻This is the perfect, motivating read for Preptober. I loved this book so much, and I know it will be one I read over and over again. It is inspiring, energising, and full of wonderful advice about living a creative life. • 🌻Here are some of my favourite quotes: • 💎“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that’s creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place—that’s what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. The often surprising results of that hunt—that’s what I call Big Magic.” • 💎“And when I refer to magic here, I mean it literally. Like, in the Hogwarts sense. I am referring to the supernatural, the mystical, the inexplicable, the surreal, the divine, the transcendent, the otherworldly. Because the truth is, I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment—not entirely human in its origins…I believe the creative process is both magical and magic.” • 💎“You do not need anybody’s permission to live a creative life” • 💎“here’s a trick: Stop complaining. Trust me on this...There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life. First of all, it’s annoying. Every artist complains so it’s a dead and boring topic. Second, of course it’s difficult to create things; if it wasn’t difficult, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn’t be special or interesting. Third, nobody ever really listens to anybody else’s complaints, anyhow, because we’re all too focused on our own holy struggle, so basically you’re just talking to a brick wall. Fourth, and most important, you’re scaring away inspiration. Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you, offended.” • 🌻If you are a creator of any sort I highly recommend reading this book! • #bigmagic #preptober2020 #nanowrimo #nanowrimo2020 #preptober #writingcommunity #writershelpingwriters #bookstagram #writing #writinglife #writingtools #authorsofinstagram #creativelife #magic #booksofinstagram #bookrecommendations #book (at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpawAUgTws/?igshid=1i3ujqz51ake1