Margaret Mitchell Quotes

What is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism..

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.