About Quote by Junot Diaz

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I…

— Anne Rice

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt…

— Simon McBurney

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea…

— Ray Bradbury

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago,…

— Michael Haneke

Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not…

— Hugh Dancy

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast…

— Bill Mollison

“The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the…

— Ed Catmull

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never…

— Siobhan Davies

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view…

— Paul Feyerabend

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

— Thomas Piketty