#ira

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #experience

Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are. ↗

— Janae Marie

#life-and-experience #experience

The author's job is to create a vicarious experience for a complete stranger. ↗

— Lou Jessop

#experience

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#miracles #experience

Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#dunia-sophie #inspirational #life #philosophy #inspirational

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life ↗

— Émile Zola

#inspirational

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life. ↗

— Ha Jin

#inspirational #practicality #inspirational

Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth…You would never have to worry about money again. ↗

— Tim Kirkland

#life-lessons #motivation #people-skills #inspirational

When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, But sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light. ↗

— Adventure Time

#inspirational #humor

Still In the fall, I believe again in poetry if nothing else it is a movement of the mind. Summers ball together into sticky lumps, spring evenings are glass beads from one mould for standard-size youth, winter a smooth heaviness, not even cold. But the mind trembles here, on the brink the mind trembles there is life, after all, there is life, still unbelief left. ↗

— Jaakko A. Ahokas

#fall #inspirational #inspirational