Asking Quote by Connie Willis

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

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know.…

— Scott Westerfeld

“Where do you get your ideas?” And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren’t old enough to know any better. And it’s…

— Neil Gaiman

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you…

— Lynn Abbey

“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

— Twyla Tharp

“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking, 'How did…

— Suzanne Berne

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other…

— Neil Gaiman

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character…

— Jean Fritz

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas...…

— Neil Gaiman

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

— Ira Glass

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

— William Faulkner