Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.