Gestation Quotations

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.