Karl Hyde quotes

“Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.”
-- Karl Hyde

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“Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.”
-- Karl Hyde

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“I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.”
-- Karl Hyde

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“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”

“The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.”

Source : Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.25, El Dorado Publishing

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

“Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.”

“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”