Inventing Quotes

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.