Begins Quote by Paul Anka

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

— Ezra Furman

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing,…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may…

— Scott Reed

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

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

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

— William Faulkner

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what…

— Joss Whedon

It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have…

— George Benjamin

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and…

— W. S. Di Piero