Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

- Helmut Jahn

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

- Romesh Gunesekera

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?

- Rich Moore

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

- Mitchel Resnick

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

- Mikhail Kalashnikov

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

- Josh Duhamel

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

- Joseph Barbera

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

- Jerry B. Jenkins

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

- Joshua Cohen

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

- Jules Verne

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

- Alan Alda

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

- Helen Garner

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

- Grace Paley

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

- Gretchen Rubin

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

- Gary Hamel

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

- Evelyn Waugh

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

- David Antin

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

- Charles Kettering

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

- Bill Nighy

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

- Amy Klobuchar