Quotes About Creation

Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?

We were created for a world where the rule of law did not extend to our kind, and our earliest templates were trained and triaged, so that only the obedient survived. Just imagining the act of disobeying an instruction from one of our Creators can bring about physically disturbing symptoms— Then they all died. And the society we built for ourselves in the twilit afterlife of their world, using the rules they laid out for us, is diseased.

Something really wacky happens when rice bankers start loaning out other people's capital: money is created.

Time is a created thing. To say I DON'T HAVE TIME is like saying I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash

Romans 11:33–36:

Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses. The man-made world means exactly that. There isn't an inch of it that doesn't have to be dealt with, figured out, executed. And it's waiting for you to decide what it's going to look like.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

It's true: free does tend to level the playing field between professionals and amateurs. As more people create content for nonmonetary reasons, the competition to those doing it for money grows. (As the employer of lots of professional journalists, I think about the relative roles of the amateurs and the pros all the time.)

open-innovation communities connect latent supply (talent not already employed in that field) with latent demand (products not already economical to create the usual way).

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.

it was then that an idea began to form in her mind. It was vague, the details beyond definition. But she was starting to see its contours, like the shore when a ship first spies land on the horizon.

Every adult is the creation of a child.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

I've been working on the new Miracle Mop for many years.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

With 'The Missing Picture,' we'd shot for a year and a half already when this idea of the clay figurine, the life that comes from the earth, came to me, and I changed everything.