You can never be
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it. Frederick Buechner
Inventing
But I do nothing
But I do nothing that I don’t like, such as \”inventing\” up to the arty or \”down\” to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the \”let’s be artistic\” attitude. I know that artistry just happens. Fred Astaire
We mustn\’t be afraid
We mustn’t be afraid of inventing anything…Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we’re part of nature. If it resembles nature, that’s fine. If it doesn’t, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and … Read more
The game was that
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real world… a race without end… What mattered more than the answers were the questions… For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was … Read more
A director is the
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that’s inventing itself. Francis Ford Coppola
She liked books more
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Some of the secret
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. Douglas Pagels
Many of us have
Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It’s important to get headed in the right direction, but don’t get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the … Read more
In the end, we
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Adams did not
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being … Read more