#oura

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing. If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion. Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#encouragement #inspiration #neil-gaiman #reviews #art

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. ↗

— Len Deighton

#believe #books #certain #encouraged #i

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? ↗

— Rollo May

#art

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. ↗

— Laura Dern

#behaviour #bold #courageous #human #human behaviour

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#courage #death #strength #attitude

You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. ↗

— Harley King

#dreams #mountains #courage

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#discouraging #humiliating #limit #very

Faith is reason grown courageous. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#courageous #grown #reason