Quotes About Creation

Il y a désir et désir. Vers le tablao andalou monte un désir qui est l'honneur de la création. Vers la scène du music-hall parisien, monte un désir qui est de la saloperie.

Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives.

To live is to build a ship and a harbor at the same time. And to complete the harbor long after the ship was drowned.

Eres como Dios cuando fabricas productos para enriquecer las vidas de los demás, no para obtener un beneficio. El benefició vendrá, pero debe ser el Efecto y no la Causa de tu trabajo.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

I worked regularly and kept a journal; I saw that creation was an accretive process which couldn't be hurried, and which involved patience and, primarily, love. I felt more solid myself, and not as if my mind were just a kind of cinema for myriad impressions and emotions to flicker through.

when you're writing it's such an obsessive thing, and then when you're done it's like pushing something out of your body (...)

Out of an expanse of time, you carve a little area—that nobody asked you to carve—and you do something. 20

I can't rid myself of the need to do "something," to make "something," to feel that this new expanse of time hasn't been "wasted.

but to create a real feeling—made

Writing is routinely described as creative —this has never struck me as a correct word. Planting tulips is creative. To plant a bulb(I imagine, I've never done it) is to participate in some small way in the cyclic miracle of creation. Writing is control.

Actually creating an animal just so it can die -- it's like being God! I mean personally I'm a Hindu, yeah? I'm not religious or nothing, but you know, I believe in the sanctity of life, yeah? And these people, like, program the mouse, plot its every move, yeah, when it's going to have kids, when it's going to die. It's just unnatural .

Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.

People were not people but merely an effect of language. You could conjure them up and kill them in a sentence

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." —Tom Robbins