#liter

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul ↗

— Albert Camus

#literature #writing #art

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#bad #because #birth #days #dog

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#hated #house #i #literally #mirror

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#any #awesome #beings #beliefs #create

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. ↗

— Michael Scott

#bookstore #christian #here #into #learn

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #books #campuses #come #ever

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #enormous #familiarity #fischer #his