Origin

I've been putting off the creation of this collection for many months. Ironic for a motivational blog - I know - but there was a reason beyond banal laziness and fear of large projects. I wasn't sure whether anyone will be interested, whether anyone feels the same as I do. Most people don't approve of my unforgiving attitude (especially psychologists...) - they don't understand how can pain, anger, hate or disgust lead to positive actions - to success.

But then I stumbled upon this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

Turns out my all-time favorite writer, whose books helped me during some of the darker periods of my teenage life, is just like me:

"Terry looked at me. He said: "Do not underestimate this anger. This anger was the engine that powered Good Omens.” I thought of the driven way that Terry wrote, and of the way that he drove the rest of us with him, and I knew that he was right.
There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld. It’s also the anger at the headmaster who would decide that six-year-old Terry Pratchett would never be smart enough for the 11-plus; anger at pompous critics, and at those who think serious is the opposite of funny; anger at his early American publishers who could not bring his books out successfully.
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And that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry’s underlying sense of what is fair and what is not."

I read it yesterday. Today I created this blog. The least I could do...