Anna B
@annabwriting
Anna B
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
-Susan Sontag
It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my family: there seemed no way to translate what had happened into grammar and syntax.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I lend you a copy of the novel I loved, you read it, and now its beauty resides in both of our hearts
Nick Riggle • Beauty Is Not an Ornament to the Good Life, It Is at Its Heart
#mindfullness #spirituality #respect
Most significant to those of us interested in the Heroine’s Journey is that for a hero in a Hero’s Journey, a prevailing concept and perpetuated message is that asking for (or needing) help is BAD. Because a hero who asks for help is perceived as weak by the story
Gail Carriger • The Heroine's Journey
Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Woolf herself was ambivalent about “On Being Ill,” and about its opening sentence.