What Is The Significance?
Excuse me for using the same quote twice, once in my notes, and now here. But it is Dostoevsky’s White Nights and it deserves more than one mention!
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
To people of different professions, life has a different meaning. To a businessman life is partly filled with stats and numbers, and to a painter life is seen in colors and many different shades of nature. And to an author, life has many more aspects to it than what is usually presumed. I can’t speak for every writer ever existed, to different authors, life has different meanings. But one thing is certain, we live to tell tales that our hearts want to get rid of.
The primary source of a writer’s content and inspiration is life itself, as much imagination and creativity there might be, the very essence of life gives birth to ideas that have an impact of those to read them.
To me personally, life is one long story, with one chapter after another, and one tragedy after another, life is filled with twists that even greatest of authors cannot come up with in their books. Mostly because, the twists in life affect us more directly than the ones in life.
Life is absurd, life is full of hope and hopelessness, life is all bright and lit up, life is gloomy and dark. Life is what it is....Read More