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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

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Think about how easy it would be for a movie about talking toys to feel derivative, sappy, or overtly merchandise driven. Think about how off-putting a movie about rats preparing food could be, or how risky it must've seemed to start WALL-E with 39 dialogue-free minutes. We dare to attempt these stories, but we don't get them right on the first pass. This is as it should be. Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback and the iterative process -- reworking, reworking, and reworking again, until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.

Creativity, Inc.

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Accidental smile

It is a great feeling to plan, structure and strategize every possible step that you may encounter with and actually see the plan to work out with the utmost result. 

But it is (for me) even greater feeling when you don’t plan something, and as something as tiny bit of an accident brings unexpected, delightful result. 

There is an famous story of how anesthesia was invented in an unexpected way. In 1844, Horace Wells attended an exhibit and witnessed a participant injure his leg while under the influence of laughing gas. The man, whose leg was bleeding, told Wells that he didn’t feel any pain. After his accidental discovery, Wells used the compound as an anesthetic while he removed his tooth. From there, anesthesia’s use during medical procedures and surgeries took off. 

Accident I encountered with today is not in a slightest way close to the invention of the anesthesia, but nevertheless it is meaningful to me. As I am developing my skills in drawing, I draw anywhere I possibly can. Even in the bus, that keeps constantly shaking.

Those who draw will probably agree that drawing emotions of the living creations takes quite a skill and eye to details to master, oppose to an inanimate objects. And as I am relatively new to drawing, there is a long way to go until I master it. 

So as while sitting in the bus, I was doodling on my notebook, and wanted to draw a guy’s profile and him listening music via the headsets, and sporting a goatee. I wanted to visualize him enjoying music with a tiny bit of a smile, but wasn’t sure how to draw a smile from the profile. The same moment bus suddenly stopped and my hand unwillingly went left to write on the paper making a stroke on the drawing. When I looked down I noticed that lines were quite long, but otherwise resembled a smile. As I erased extra lines, I noticed that I actually drew a smile! I repeated it several more times, now paying close attention to how it is placed, and now I can proudly say that I am on the right track of drawing smile of the profile face.

This encounter reminded me yet again that, regardless of the the nature and scale of the end result, things may happen and come your way either by vigorously planning it, paying attention to surroundings and "oddities" or teaching yourself that everything is interesting.  

—The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. – Ira Erwin—

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favourite bts photos from harry potter: film wizardry - pt 1

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hellozaira said: yayyy!! could you post couple of photos of pages and share how the book was like. Amazing cover! :)

sure sweetie! i don't want to post too many because i don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it yet, but i will say that it's probably my favourite thing i own ever. i'll tag you in the photos C:

[hellozaira]

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Favorite passages - "The English patient" book

I finished reading the first book of 2014. “The English patient”. While entire book was nice, and well written, these are passages that i like the most. Let me know what are your favorite passage, lines from the book :)

"She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew on them. Words gave her clarity, brought her reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water."

" I loved his calmness in all things. I would argue furiously about locations on a map, and his reports would somehow speak of our "debate" in reasonable sentences. He wrote calmly and joyfully about our journeys when there was a joy to describe, as if we were Anna and Vronsky at a dance. Still, he was a man who never entered those Cairo dance halls with me. And I was the man who fell in love while dancing.

He moved with a glow gait. I never saw him dance. He was a man who wrote, who  interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest silver of emotions. A glance could lead the paragraphs. If he witnessed a new knot among a desert tribe to found a rare palm it would charm him for weeks. When he came upon messages on our travels - any wording, contemporary or ancient, Arabic on a mud wall, a note in English written in chalk on the fender of a jeep - he would read it and then press his hand upon it as if to touch its possible deeper meanings, to become as intimate as he could with the words."

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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

 Italo Calvino