Thomas Pynchon Quotes

When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved.

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.