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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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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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

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Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

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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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There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

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I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

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It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

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Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

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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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We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

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Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

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

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