Asks Quote by Salman Rushdie

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion.…

— Sandra Brown

“First of all, ideas aren’t the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author’s unique execution.”

— Josh Lanyon

We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had this whole…

— Steve Toltz

“Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on…

— Brigid Lowry

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

“The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the…

— Orson Scott Card

“I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?”

— Mian Mian

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

“Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality. I agreed.…

— N.D. Wilson

“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of…

— Geraldine Brooks

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

“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