Big Quote by Brian Selznick

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea…

— John Emmerling

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually,…

— Brian Helgeland

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going…

— Jill Greenberg

The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much…

— Lucy Corin

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

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

— Brian Keene

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good…

— Stephen King

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title…

— Brian Evenson

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

— Saul Bass

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite…

— Jamie Hewlett

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to…

— William Campbell Gault