Asks Quote by Ayelet Waldman

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking…

— Connie Willis

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you…

— Lynn Abbey

“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of…

— Philip Pullman

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“Where do you get your ideas?” And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren’t old enough to know any better. And it’s…

— Neil Gaiman

“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking, 'How did…

— Suzanne Berne

“I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to…

— Milan Kundera

“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I want you to feel empowered to explore those questions without worrying that there is some secret answer somewhere resting with the author. The…

— John Green

“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had the guts…

— Angela Carter

“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is…

— William H. Gass

“don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers”

— Ernest Hemingway