Quotes About Creation

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

There's no story that's the start of itself.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.

I will set you in the sky and name you. I will hide you in the earth like treasure.

These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is?

The arts aren't a leisure industry - the arts have always been an imaginative and emotional wrestle with reality -a series of inventions and creations. A capacity to think differently, a willingness to change our understanding of ourselves. To help us be wiser, more reflective, less frightened people.

He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that the thing which had received such imperfect animation would subside into dead matter, and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench forever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life.

It meant that to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.

I am in love with her; not a fantasy or a myth or a creature of my own making. Her. A person who is not me. I invented Bonaparte as much as he invented himself. My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.

She was an absolutist, and had no time for people who thought cows didn't exist unless you looked at them. Once a thing was created, it was valid for all time. Its value went not up nor down.

My own father came out of the sea and went back that way... His splintered hull shored him long enough to drop anchor inside my mother. Shoals of babies vied for life. I won.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.

Tutto è bene quando esce dalle mani dell'Autore delle cose, tutto degenera fra le mani dell'uomo.

Don't worry," said Maddy. "People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

In the most fundamental way I have my first glimpse of how the ingredients come together, how each is nothing in particular by itself but once they are joined they can make something miraculous.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there's quite enough existence as it is.

J'étais un enfant, ce monstre qu'ils fabriquent avec leurs regrets.

to do something is to create existence