Quotes About Creation

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be. Something new had been born.

Man created in the divine image, the protagonists of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth-seeking and-consuming animal."22

Fleshing out a world, creating and playing a host of secondary character, arbitrating rules and crafting scenarios can be difficult tasks. Nonetheless, the chance to make a dream come alive is well worth the trouble. When the other characters carve their niches in the world, you give them the world itself.

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

In a very real way, an author's creations are given over to others, the way a mother sends her children out into the larger world.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

First draft, use your heart. Revision, use your head

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

If a man finishes a poem,he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passionand be kissed by white paper.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too.

The most common kind of zine is the personal zine, created by individuals reflecting on their everyday lives-confessional, sometimes mundane, containing even scandalous writings.

was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.