Quotes About Innovation

People didn't like thinking outside the box, apparently. Though to be fair, it was a box that had changed her family's life for the better.

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.

When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her "talk" through satire or parable rather than proof texting the six main points? Yet

food to nourish the imagination

Both moderns and postmoderns must be willing to try old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

This is what a spark can do.»

Just because humans have become -advanced- enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evolutionary processes have ceased to operate.

Just because humans have become "advanced" enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evoutionary processes have ceased to operate.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.