Quotes About Creation

When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

The more you reason the less you create.

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. (Letter, April 19, 1951)

The rules are clean: they are right, I ween But where do they make the thing?

I am not your brother. My brother Morvai died the night you were created, eledhel. And you know all that I have been since the day you left, as I know all that you have been.'.

C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron

But emotions teach those who are willing to pay attention. By processing them, we learn to empathize, and love ourselves and others. In fact, understanding this aspect of our being is central to healing our family history, because it holds the most powerful energy that we use to create our lives.

To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your fate, to name the grandmothers as well as the fathers, to draw nets and not straight lines, to be a maker as well as a cleaner, to be able to sing and not be silenced, to take down the veil and appear: all these are the banners on the laundry line I hang out.