Inspirational Quote by Samuel R. Delany

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

— Emma Donoghue

“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.”

— Sean O'Faolain

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

— Sam Shepard

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

— Michael Ondaatje

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The…

— Grenville Kleiser

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

— Joyce Meyer

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

— Lawrence Block

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

— Gene Brown