#invent

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. ↗

— John le Carre

#chaos #i #i am #making #order

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#forehead #had #heels #high #high heels

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#because #i #i think #inventive #new

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#being #better #cure #fact #fire

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#invented #killing #nobody #polite #word

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#i #invent #now #people #stars

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #before #evil #existed #express