Innovation Quote by Mary Shelly

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley

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

— Terry Pratchett

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Paul Auster

“A writer's mind can never be empty.”

— Michael Acciarino

“Without imagination, there’s no power to visualize what we have never experienced... and without that, there can be no progress, no invention.”

— Max Allan Collins

“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

“Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

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

— Christopher Isherwood

“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart