Nonfiction Quote by John McPhee

“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one”

— Jo Linsdell

“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

“A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.”

— Roshan Kolar

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.”

— Dermott Hayes

“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

“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

“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives like to them.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Reality mixed in with the right dash of creative license is what works the best - when writing novels, at least!”

— Mike Watson

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“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