Firsts Quote by Carol Emshwiller

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

— Danger Mouse

Usually my ideas are small.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small…

— Diane Setterfield

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

— David Ogilvy

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

— Matt Mullenweg

Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

— Wiz Khalifa

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

— Twyla Tharp

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

— Patricia C. Wrede

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

— Nicholas Sparks

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

— Amy Sedaris

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

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz