Escaping Quote by Samuel Beckett

“It's not about inventing, it's about saying it best.”

— Wendy Potocki

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

— Howard Barker

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

— Harry Mathews

“This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything…

— Karl Pilkington

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

— Christopher Isherwood

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

— Genrich Altshuller

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

To invent is to discern, to choose.

— Henri Poincare

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something…

— Elif Batuman