Creating Quotes

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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our… — Tony Dungy
I donâ€™t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one… — Lorrie Moore
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all… — Brenda Ueland
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false… — Neil Postman
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me… — Charles Bukowski
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if… — Ray Bradbury
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the… — Robert Anton Wilson
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do… — Gustave Flaubert
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people… — Richard Scarry
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a… — Henry Miller
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come… — Sue Monk Kidd
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death,… — Patricia Briggs
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert

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