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When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know.…

— Chris Prentiss

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just -…

— Robert Barry

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some…

— Alan Lightman

I have several things that I'm working on and trying to put together. It's hard to say exactly what's next. I think I know…

— David Robert Mitchell

I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through things in…

— Steve Gunn

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually…

— Kelley Armstrong

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything…

— Junot Diaz

During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An…

— Woody Allen

When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline…

— Zoe Foster Blake

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it…

— Markus Zusak