Anything Quote by Ravi Subramanian

“Story ideas had never been a problem for him, there'd always been more ideas than time to write them, he'd reject one perfectly good…

— Donald E. Westlake

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

— Isaac Asimov

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

— Stanley Elkin

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it…

— Laura Esquivel

Every seed has a story.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom”

— Jennifer Sodini

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

“Every seed has a story, but only the ones that make it from the ground get to tell theirs.”

— Eduvie Donald

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and…

— Deb Caletti