I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.
Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
. . . so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee. . . those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll). . . you can really tell on some tracks. . . they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a problem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the border, there will be trouble. If we forget about the river, there will be now way out. There is already a sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can never erase.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place. . . is called genius.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U. S. government.
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.
We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. . . . we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.
Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I don't exactly know how the story just comes, but it does. But in writing a story that you're inventing, versus writing a story that somebody else has made up - there's a world of difference. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing.
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.
I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.
