Eugene Field Quotes

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

I’m trying to think of one.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

I write with my brain. I don't need a computer.

I only think in live action.

I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.