Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

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
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really… — 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
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost
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
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his… — Allan W. Eckert
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
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the… — Amy Tan
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
I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that… — Aldous Huxley
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does… — Kurt Vonnegut
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
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. — Hyman Bass

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