Alan Lightman Quotes, Book Quotes, Creative Quotes

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

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The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

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We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

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It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

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We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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