Around Quote by Brian Helgeland

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on…

— Matt de la Pena

Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself…

— Sandra Brown

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

— Jodi Picoult

I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there…

— Benjamin Percy

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel…

— Stephen King

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

— Tracy Chevalier

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

— Ernest Gaines