THE MENTOR SANCTUARY

Words to keep you writing.

On courage, creativity, and starting again. A collection of voices to accompany your own.

01Purpose

“Ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write?”

Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet · Letter OneRead source
02Space to create

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Virginia WoolfA Room of One’s Own · Chapter 1Read source
03Possibility

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”

Henry David ThoreauWalden · Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForRead source
04Creativity

“Invention, it must be admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

Mary ShelleyFrankenstein · Introduction to the 1831 editionRead source
05Beginning again

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure.”

Henry FordMy Life and Work · IntroductionRead source

One honest sentence is a beginning.

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