March 2012
John Green's tumblr: I Saw The Hunger Games Last Night →
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I’m late, but in my defense I was on planes much of the last five days.
So a quick prefatory comment: I’m quoted on the back of The Hunger Games for nice things I said about the first book in the New York Times Book Review when it came out, so obviously I like the book. Back then, I remember…
John Green, again, makes a good point.
“This was not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile and inhumane than love; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.”
—Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via disappointmentartist)
“When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problem was impossible. Instead, we skip straight to the breakthrough. We tell the happy ending first. The danger of this scenario is that the act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it’s only after we stop searching that an answer may arrive.”
—The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, (via liamdryden)
