Desks Quote by Philip Pullman

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

— John Cleese

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

— J. J. Abrams

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper,…

— Camilo Jose Cela

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

— Stephen King

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

— Stephenie Meyer

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

— Simone Giertz

I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the…

— Paul Auster

Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them.

— Ryan Holiday

So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that…

— Stephen King

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

— Jeremy Scott

Ideas are unpredictable and unreliable. You need to grab them while you can, whenever they present themselves.

— Angela Scanlon

“The problem with ideas is that they never come all at once. They emerge like prairie dogs. An edge of ear, or the tip…

— Maggie Stiefvater