Advice Quote by Andy Rooney

“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to…

— Andy Rooney

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

— Janet Fitch

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

— Matt Damon

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will…

— Robert B. Parker

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if…

— Ann Patchett

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

— Gerhard Richter

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and…

— Irvine Welsh

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

— Linus Pauling

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat…

— John Darnielle