As big as my ego may be, I’m really not of the belief that I can’t be replaced. I didn’t invent the wheel. There’s someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.
I sometimes don’t try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction – and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, ‘Oh my God – that’s it!’
We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we’ve got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within minutes, people have ideas, make plans, invent activities.
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can’t just call the shots and expect change.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
We can invent only with memory.
A writer’s obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn’t. Fiction writers are born liars.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
If you want your kids to have fun learning about food, you need to let them explore it in their own way. Let them figure out for themselves what textures and flavors go well together. Who knows, maybe they’ll invent the next French-fry-dipped-in-a-Frosty trend.
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
I love to cook when I have the time. I don’t cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I’m lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, ‘Let’s go out to dinner.’
As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That’s just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn’t exist; make them seem like they do.
I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I’m a different fighter.
I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
I’m against all those people who say that there’s still something to invent in football.
You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There’s no faking that kind of emotion. You can’t invent the feeling. It’s got to be natural, real.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
