All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided…

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music…

— Michael Graves

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of…

— Jodi Picoult

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and…

— Robin Hobb

You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened.…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“You better make sense of what happened to other people in other times and other places because if you don’t you won’t know if…

— Ray Dalio

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in…

— Christina Baker Kline

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

— Paul Wolfowitz

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

— Carly Simon

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's…

— Shura

“Then a sound came.  It was like the grinding of gears on a colossal ship engine.  The sound was like mountains of iron scraping…

— Alec Merta

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

— Hans Kung

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,…

— Robert Grudin

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I…

— Thomas A. Edison

I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft…

— Richard Greenberg