Quotes About Creation

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

I think life's too complex to be an accident.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

uncaused cause, or to use Aristotle's famous expression, an Unmoved

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. "Probably

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

WE CAN ALLOW SATELLITES, PLANETS, SUNS, UNIVERSE, NAY WHOLE SYSTEMS OF UNIVERSES, TO BE GOVERNED BY LAWS, BUT THE SMALLEST INSECT, WE WISH TO BE CREATED AT ONCE BY SPECIAL ACT. —Charles Darwin