Quotes About Creation

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.

When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable, people who are content, they don't create art.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor.

We bless you, God, for forming each person in your image. You have planted within us a vision of you and given us the means that we may flourish through time. Blessed are you, Creator of humanity.

People will know instinctively that someone who creates things is awesome.

Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.