#creating

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK. ↗

— Stephen King

#creating #desert #faith #house #idea

The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices... but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all. ↗

— Toba Beta

#free-will #the-best-option

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#awed #casual #creating #dedicated #even

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#children #creating #dreams #environment #i

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#art #creating #importation #in the past #land

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#clearly #communicate #creating #enjoyed #i

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. ↗

— Olivier Sarkozy

#creating #debt #errand #fool #more

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#arrive #as far as #clearing #coming #consciousness

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. ↗

— John M. Ford

#creating #different #fiction #fictional #game

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. ↗

— John Sununu

#business #create #creating #formula #government