“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.” IfsThinkingMenMayMeanArtCertainCoursesFoundBitsPowerfulEventsBlessingDifficultyAverageMoodFirmStreamsCarrieSerenityUnfortunateHarborsGloomyMood Changes Book:Van Gogh's Source: Van Gogh's
“When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an event I'll wear camouflage. It depends what kind of mood I'm in.” KindSometimesEventsDependsBlueMoodShirtsJeansCamouflageBlue Jeans Author:Si Robertson
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.” NeedsMomentsPastMemoriesConditionsEventsParticularPersonalityReaderElementsResponseDetermineMoodCombinationTraitsPreoccupationPersonality TraitsPast Events Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt
“Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.” WorldLooksCharacterHelpingStoriesUsePayEventsEmotionalSceneNotesMoodOpeningLandscapeToneDescriptionDescribing Author:Janet Fitch
“If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.” IfsBelieveTodaySocialGroupsEventsTomorrowNegativeOppositesMoodLocalsWelcomeBiasRejecting Author:John L. Casti