It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost…

“A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory… Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That's as it should be, they tell us. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go, that way, to the devil, I…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract…

— Stephen King

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for…

— Oscar Wilde

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things…

— Lord Chesterfield

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…

— Richard Dawkins

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

— David Copperfield

“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole…

— John Steinbeck

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same…

— Brittany Murphy

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira