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Quotes About Creation

I'm not sure that religion was constructed with time travelers in mind." Buck's brows rose at that. "Constructed?" he echoed, surprised. "Who builds God?" That actually made Roger laugh, which made him feel a little better, if only momentarily. "We all do," he said dryly. "If God makes man in His image, we all return the favor.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope. The stars willna burn out.
~ Diana Gabaldon
O Lord, bless the blood and the flesh of this the creature that You gave me," Jamie said softly. He scooped a pinch of the herbs himself, and rubbed them between thumb and forefinger, in a rain of fragrant dust. "Created by Your hand as You created man,  Life given for life.  That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift,  That me and mine may give thanks for Your own sacrifice of blood and flesh,  Life given for life.
~ Diana Gabaldon
To create, to hoard, to send these things, these fragile documents, down through the years, with only the hope that they would survive and reach those for whom they were intended.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
But I remember talking with Mr. Garrick once in London, and his reference to the playwright as a little god who directs the actions of his creations, exerting absolute control upon them. Mrs. Cowley argued with this, saying that it is delusion to assume that the creator controls his creations and that an attempt to exert such control while ignoring the true nature of those creations is doomed to failure.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When I decided that I should have a female character, I simply introduced her, knowing nothing about her other than the fact that she was an Englishwoman. ... Whereupon Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp promptly took over the story and began telling it herself. Being in no position to argue with her, I took the path of least resistance, and went along to see what would happen next.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Created by Your hand as You created man,  Life given for life.  That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift,  That me and mine may give thanks for Your own sacrifice of blood and flesh,  Life given for life." The
~ Diana Gabaldon
Who makes a garden works with God.
~ Diana Gabaldon
INCIPIENT THUNDER
~ Diana Gabaldon
One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
~ V. S. Naipaul
Things that are created with passion tend to work out better than things that are assignments that we don't really want to do.
~ Randy Pitchford
You have to create your own atmosphere.
~ Mason Mount
I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.'
~ Johnny Flynn
When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created.
~ Bill Ward
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
~ Brian Eno
The audience will understand something that's very authentic, and that's all that I want to create.
~ Marsai Martin
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
~ Lisa Unger
A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.
~ Santiago Calatrava
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
~ James Horner
I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.
~ Bryan Konietzko
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
~ Peter Senge
With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.
~ Gaspar Noe