Ideas Quote by Robert B. Parker

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

— William Faulkner

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

— Danger Mouse

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

— Patricia C. Wrede

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

— Phil Cooke

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to…

— Andy Rooney

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

Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at…

— Jeaniene Frost

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

— George Edward Woodberry

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

— Patrick Süskind

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

— Adena Friedman

Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not…

— Max Weber