there's something about the Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks saying "Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
just like there's something about the critic in Ratattouille saying "...the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends."
and the way Neil Gaiman said "The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what itās about and why youāre doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprisingā¦ and itās magic and wonderful and strange."
with posts writen by users like @hallwriteblr saying "to you, itās a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, itās a fire line thatāll haunt them for the next 17 years. you donāt know how impactful your writing is because itās been in your brain for far too long now. youāve stared at it for hours and repeated āthis sucksā over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work. but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someoneās gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go ājesus fucking christā and put the book down to have an existential crisis."
and how @pascalcampion wrote a comic that said "People don't always remember the details of what you do. They remember how it impacted them. How they felt. How what you did made them feel. That feeling will stay with them longer than the memory of the act itself."
that makes me want to write
and think its worth it