Idea Quotes

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. — David Belasco
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate,… — Paulo Coelho
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. — Maya Lin
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's… — Patricia Lee Gauch
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say. — Francoise Sagan
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen… — Lewis Thomas
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. — Amy Tan
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the… — Unknown Author
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it… — Larry Flynt
Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this is idea is general, and sometimes it… — Robert Fritz
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the… — Tom Coughlin
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston
I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures. — Alex Majoli
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn

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