Academic Quote by Michael Bierut

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

— Janet Fitch

Often, I hear my ideas are more incomprehensible than not.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

— Michael Abrash

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

— Phil Cooke

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

— Nicholas Royle

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really…

— Alexandra Fuller

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes…

— Simon Travaglia

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

— Ned Beauman

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems…

— Alan Moore