I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun, or to be subversive or to get turned on to something. It's just like doing math at school. I mean, how often do we sit down and do trigonometry for fun, to relax. I've thought about this, the domination of the literary arts by theory over the past 25 years -- which I detest -- and it's as if you have to be a critic to mediate between the author and the reader and that's utter crap. Literature can be great in all ways, but it's just entertainment like rock'n'roll or a film. It is entertainment. If it doesn't capture you on that level, as entertainment, movement of plot, then it doesn't work. Nothing else will come out of it. The beauty of the language, the characterisation, the structure, all that's irrelevant if you're not getting the reader on that level -- moving a story. If that's friendly to readers, I cop to it.
T. Coraghessan BoyleTags: writing literature entertainment creative-process enjoyment
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
Elizabeth von ArnimTags: travel walking enjoyment
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: life arts music dance dancing peace war tolerance culture enjoy-life arts-and-humanities enjoyment world-peace give-peace-a-chance
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.
C.S. LewisTags: nature solitude silence appreciation walking talking enjoyment senses
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo PicassoTags: art understanding artist enjoyment
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—
Oscar WildeTags: life happiness age love enjoyment fearless
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
Belinda JeffreyTags: books word enjoyment patterns
In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.
Rasheed OgunlaruTags: acceptance self-acceptance joy inner-peace waiting gratitude enjoyment special living-life flow life-choices procrastinating celebrating-life life-path
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
Anne BrontëTags: friendship silence conversation company enjoyment faculty
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
Matt D. MillerTags: inspirational consciousness truth happiness love empowerment passion inspiration spiritual joy uplifting empowering excitement spirituality encouragement attraction prosperity truths enjoyment vitality empower encouraging abundance universal-law universal-law-of-attraction
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