From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c. , acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?
Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.
We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
Man keeps inventing things all the time.
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place. . . is called genius.
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
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.
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.