What did Lev Grossman mean by: She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. - Lev Grossman Author Copy
+ We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Ignorance, Neglect, Rulers, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it? Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Lev Grossman, Good Story, Stories, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Hero, Relief, Stories, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Feraz Zeid, June 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Lev Grossman, Brave, Giving Up, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Quests, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ It’s time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. Feraz Zeid, July 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Lev Grossman, Loss, Lost, Mourn, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ There’s a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Writing, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
+ Read everything. If you haven’t read everything, you’ll never be able to write anything. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Writing, 0 - Lev Grossman Author
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
