Book Quote by Douglas Adams

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming…

— Cassandra Clare

“The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the…

— Orson Scott Card

Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see…

— Elizabeth Berg

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as…

— Paul Auster

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…

— Aldous Huxley

“People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.”

— Brian Knapp

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get…

— Sofia Coppola

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

— Kathleen Hanna

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

— John Cage

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....

— Ellen Langer

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

— Jean Dubuffet

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

— Pablo Picasso