Quote by John McPhee Download Open image ““For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”” — John McPhee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.” — Dermott Hayes Copy Share Image
“Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they've started work… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives like to them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
“Reality mixed in with the right dash of creative license is what works the best - when writing novels, at least!” — Mike Watson Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Incandescent carbon particles, by the tens of millions, leap free of the log and wave like banners, as flame. Several hundred significantly different chemical… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“There is no Weatherfax map on the Stella Lykes—only the barometer, the barographs, the teletypes from NOAA. The radar can see a storm, but… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
