Invent Quotes

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

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.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

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

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.