Quotes About Creation

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world.

Easy reading is the product of hard writing

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.

I've made some things for you, Constant Reader; you see them laid out before you in the moonlight. But before you look at the little handcrafted treasures I have for sale, let's talk about them for a bit, shall we? It won't take long. Here, sit down beside me. And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except... we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it?

And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.

Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.

God pounds his nails.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up. Someone once told me that that was me low-balling my own creativity. That might or might not be the case. But still, on the story I am working on now, I do have some unresolved problem. It doesn't keep me awake at nights. I feel like when it comes down, it will be there...

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.

You're a Frankenstein !" "Don't confuse the monster with the creator.

We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be

There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.

Tomorrow is a blank canvas and you are the artist.

Worship means respecting all of God's creation.