#tale

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#fame-and-fortune #life-skills #popularity #talent #art

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall. ↗

— Travis Thrasher

#solitary-tales-book-one-solitary #travis-thrasher #thriller

I do not fear that "future generations will not read novels," etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(...)art is not the fabrication of stories for readers but a spiritual cohabitation, something so tense and so separate from science, even contradictory to it, that there can be no competition between them. If someone fine, dignified, prolific, brilliant (this is how one ought to speak of artists this is the language art demands) is born in the future, if someone unique and unrepeatable is born, a Bach, a Rembrandt, then he will win people over, charm and seduce them... ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#artists #reader #science #talent #writing

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lies #life #reality #sweet #tell-a-tale

Life is not a fairy tale… It won’t always be a happy ending… ↗

— George Aaron P. Navaja

#happy-ending #life #love #life

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#love #tales-of-love-and-marriage #life

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dreaming #dreams #fairy-tales #inkheart #inspirational

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. ↗

— William Cobbett

#men #much #oftener #perseverance #talent

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#fantasy

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. ↗

— André Breton

#stories #surrealism #surreal