Keep a commonplace book for inspiration

Susan L Stewart
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readMay 8, 2018

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Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

(All quotes are from my commonplace book)

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Poet Mary Oliver

What, exactly is a commonplace book?

As far back as people have had the tools and education to write, they have written down interesting quotes from authors…

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Quiet, full-time author and artist. Writes fiction and nonfiction. Lives with chronic pain and mental illness.