Quotes About Creation

I never can understand how two men can write a book together. To me, that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon ; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening — of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spumed the friars, with their dusty tomes and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

Perhaps that's one of the pleasures of building, like having a son, wondering how he'll grow up. I don't know; I never built anything, and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I'm homeless, childless, middle-aged, loveless, Hooper.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you're trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I'd try to make the world crack with me.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- three minutes; to collect the data in it-- all my life.

Sometimes I don't know if Zelda isn't a character that I created myself.

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Há gente que diz que a inteligência deve ter criado o universo; ora, a inteligência jamais construiu um motor a vapor! A inteligência não passa de uma pequena régua que usamos para medir as realizações infindáveis das circunstâncias.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.

in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want it.

Thoughts are Things; things that have a tendency to transform into our reality.

Writing fiction (that means I make up stuff) is like having a free GO PAST GO card. You can write pretty much whatever you want, burn down a building, maim or kill a character, you can create love, hate, payback. You can create fictional places that over time actually become real to you the writer, and also to the reader. For example, Pinewood, where the vigilantes hang out, is a fictional farm in McLean, Virginia.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another person, who then goes on to dream it, and I stop. To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. (76)

Deus quer, o homem sonha, a obra nasce.

I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself...