Quotes About Creativity

C'è una linea di confine: da una parte ci sono quelli che fanno i libri, dall'altra quelli che li leggono. Io voglio restare una di quelli che li leggono, perciò sto attenta a tenermi sempre al di qua di quella linea. Se no, il piacere disinteressato di leggere finisce, o comunque si trasforma in un'altra cosa, che non è quello che voglio io.

Il primo libro sarebbe meglio non averlo mai scritto. Finché il primo libro non è scritto, si possiede quella libertà di cominciare che si può usare una sola volta nella vita, il primo libro già ti definisce mentre tu in realtà sei ancora lontano dall'esser definito; e questa definizione dovrai portartela dietro per la vita, cercando di darne conferma o approfondimento o correzione o smentita, ma mai più riuscendo a prescinderne.

For some time now, every novel I begin to write is exhausted shortly after the beginning, as if I had already said everything I have to say.

He covers his eyes, as if pursued by the sight of billions of pages, lines, words, whirling in a dust storm.

Minha confiança no futuro da literatura consiste em saber que há coisas que só a literatura com seus meios específicos nos pode dar.

Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.

How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed that uncomfortable partition which is my person!

Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will still be known, but none of their works will survive, as was the case with Socrates; or perhaps, all the surviving books will be attributed to a single, mysterious author, like Homer.

The author was an invisible point from which the books came

Leer es ir al encuentro de algo que está a punto de ser y aún nadie sabe qué será.

O romance que mais me apetecia ler neste momento deveria ter só como força motriz a vontade de contar, de acumular histórias sobre histórias, sem pretender impor uma visão do mundo, só fazer assistir ao seu crescimento, como uma planta, como que um emaralhado de ramos e folhas...

La pagina ha il suo bene solo quando la volti e c'è la vita dietro che spinge e scompiglia tutti i fogli del libro.

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Le cose ch'escono dal nostro cervello hanno un aspetto sovranamente amabile specie quando si esaminano non appena nate.

Cuánto reposo puede haber en la escritura!

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

I am a writer, not a transcriber.

Lascaux and Altamira, that's what I want my work to be like. . . . Something people can look back at, whenever, and get a grasp of our time. Another hundred years from now, or a hundred thousand — the amount of time between shouldn't make any difference. If my pictures are done right, people whenever ought to be able to say, 'Oh, that's what was on their minds then.

Language is the treasury of the poor.

Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.