Quotes About Innovation

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous

I need the dark places to get outside of common sense

If you can't survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong.

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.

How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?

1. sports 2. opera 3. weapons.

People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.

At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.' Ghoti, he liked to point out, could be pronounced like fish. The gh had the f sound in enough, the o had the short i sound in women, and ti had the sh sound in nation.

At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it A Ghoti out of Water. "Ghoti," he liked to point out, could be pronounced like "fish." The "gh" had the "f" sound in "enough," the "o" had the short "i" sound in "women," and "ti" had the "sh" sound in "nation." Dad

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.