Innovation Quote by Mary Shelley

“I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies…

— Mary Shelly

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else.”

— Derek Haines

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.”

— Paul Auster

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing is both wonderful and awful; you go from feeling inspired by the muses to feeling totally dull and boring.”

— Bea Cannon