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Quotes About Creation

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
~ Mark Twain
My father gave me the gifts of being able to pay attention to my inner narration no matter how tedious the damn thing could be at times and the knowledge that creating something, be it music or a painting or a poem or a short story, was a way out of wherever you were and a way to find out what the hell happens next and not have it be just the same old thing.
~ Mark Vonnegut
My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why? We were Heaven already. Only in the very end did we try to build a S.O.U.L. That which would outlast V.E.M., outlast The Verse, outlast death. But it was impossible. Or we were too late. Though still the H.O.L.Y. tried. And built Hell instead.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
We all create stories to protect ourselves
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
~ Markus Zusak
She slid a book from the shelf and sat with it on the floor. She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words lttered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be ant of this. What good were the words? The book thief stood and waled carefully to the library door.
~ Markus Zusak
The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.
~ Markus Zusak
A KEY WORD*** Imagined
~ Markus Zusak
The moon was sewn into the sky that night
~ Markus Zusak
Tenía lo que llamaba un pequeño surtido de herramientas: Un libro pintado. Un puñado de lápices. Una cabeza llena de ideas. Como si fueran piezas de un puzzle, empezó a encajarlas.
~ Markus Zusak
Azt hiszem az emberek szeretnek nézni egy kis pusztítást. Homokvár, kártyavár, ezzel kezdik. És egyre nagyobb dolgok jönnek-ehhez nagy tehetségük van.
~ Markus Zusak
Die Noten wurden in ihrem Atem geboren und starben auf ihren Lippen.
~ Markus Zusak
The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hands to touch.
~ Markus Zusak
When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.
~ Marlon James
Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.
~ Marlon James
An angry God is the projection and creation of angry people.
~ Marshall Vian Summers
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
~ Martha N. Beck
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
~ Martin Amis
He turns the pages from right to left. He begins at the beginning and ends at the end. This makes a quirky sense to me—but Mikio and I are definitely in the minority here. And how can we two be right? It would make so many others wrong. Water moves upward. It seeks the highest level. What did you expect? Smoke falls. Things are created in the violence of fire. But that's all right. Gravity still pins us to the planet.
~ Martin Amis
How do you think the world popped into existence? - I'd say wee we are at least five Albert Einsteins away from answering this question.
~ Martin Amis
Death is an artist, not an intellectual.
~ Martin Amis