Quotes About Creation

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.

Imagine que en el mismo espacio que ocupa usted con su cuerpo verdadero, existe otro cuerpo, el cuerpo imaginario de su personaje, que usted ha creado en su mente. MICHAEL CHEKHOV

Anything that happens to me as a writer has been precipitated by an action of my own.

Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the writer's life in an imagined structure, as a bird's nest incorporates all manner of items from the world outside our windows, ingeniously woven together in an original design.

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and loving-kindness. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created]. Psalm 145:8–9

Begin to weave and God will provide the thread.

We are all different. Like the sun, the moon, and the stars, God has created us to be different from one another, and He has done it on purpose. Each of us meets a need, and we are all part of God's overall plan.

It seems to me that if God took the time to enjoy each phase of His creation, His work, then you and I should also take time to enjoy our work. We should work not just to accomplish, but also to enjoy our accomplishments

May you live boldly and be all God intends you to be, and live in the fullness of the joy and beauty that you were created for.

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

Buscamos nuestra seguridad en las cosas de este mundo, en vez de buscar a Dios quien creó este mundo.

En lo más íntimo, Pedro Páramo nació de una imagen y fue la búsqueda de un ideal que llamé Susana San Juan. Susana San Juan no existió nunca: fue pensada a partir de una muchachita a la que conocí brevemente cuando yo tenía tres años. Ella nunca lo supo y no hemos vuelto a encontramos en lo que llevo de vida.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Materie ist immer etwas zur Materie Gewordenes.

You take the shit; you make an art of it; then, you die.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.

To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was

And so I invented a kingdom of dreams where I could accomplish great and daring deeds to make it happen.

I was chaos on the first day, waiting for the Word.

El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasía, de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que le permiten volar hacia el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación. Los dioses son como hombres: nacen y mueren sobre el pecho de una mujer.

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see creator as the literal term for artist. I am suggesting you take the term creator quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

when we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.