Quotes About Creation

It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else's music that I like.

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

America's a country where you can come, you can be an entrepreneur, you can create great value. I don't think you ever want to deter that from happening because this is a place where so many great businesses get created and started.

God's work was what I felt was the greater work.

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

But deleting work is sometimes the best decision you that you can make. Because you try and make this thing, that you know in your gut isn't right, and you just have to let it go. You have to be brutal.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

Harry Constantine: It happens to us all. We get a sniff of sorcery and Oh! what plans we make! We'll shake Creation and leave nothing but smiles and wit and a reputation all men envy!

Tulip: Okay, let me tell you what you're doing here-- you're writing a story. You've got the plot and dialogue from Melrose Place and fucking Baywatch, and you're writing yourself a little story in your head... The trouble is, you're using me as one of the characters.

If the Devil created Texas like some folks say he did, this is where he rested on the seventh day.