“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.” BookCreativityCuttingAliveCreationBuildingStrangeCreatingBreathsAddDelicateInwardOrganismsUrgencyCreative MindOverpoweringCreating MusicGifted Children Author:Pearl S. Buck
“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.” WorldFirstsWellsStoriesLife IsStrangeCreatingComplexesFamiliarImaginaryBelievableMilieuImaginary World Book:How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy Source: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.” MenShouldStrangeCreatingCreatorDenyAttributesEels Author:Baron d'Holbach
“We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.” SoulShowsSeemsPoliticalStrangeCreatingCampaignsDebateImpulsePresidentialWrestlingMudAmerican PoliticsGongsDerbyDemolitionPresidential DebateDemolition Derby Author:Hugh Sidey
“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.” PeopleWayFirstsHumansHeartArtDoneHandsDesireLossPleasureTalkingStrangeCreatingHungerDisasterHatedSomething NewGoodsNew ThingsSheerHuman HeartForeignersRestlessnessOpiumHelpers Author:Han Suyin
“When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.” WorldWayWantWritingStoriesPoliticalSituationNovelStrangePerspectiveHorrorCreatingConcernCommunicateMonstersEmbeddedSurrealismHorror Stories Author:China Mieville
“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.” ThinkingHas BeensPastEnjoyInterestingGoneStrangePeriodsCreatingPhotographAtmosphereFascinatingSlipsSurrealMost InterestingAmbience Author:Kate Atkinson
“I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.” ThinkingWayWritingLongStillsBookDreamInspirationHappensFeltStrangeCreatingHearingLong Book Author:Alan Lightman
“It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.” PersonsValuesEconomyDoubtStrangeCreatingAuthenticityPainterExpertsGrantsMetaphysicsMetaphysicalSealsCreating Value Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.” RealGuyOpinionStrangeCreatingMusic IsInstrumentsComposerButtonsComposingElectronic MusicCreating Something Author:Glenn Branca
“[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.” KnowsKindEndsSometimesStrangeCreatingViolentReactionsAdmireInabilityWilsonCaustic Author:Woody Harrelson