Book Quote by Sandra Brown

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

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's…

— Douglas Adams

I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what…

— Salman Rushdie

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history,…

— Oliver Harris

“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

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a…

— Chinua Achebe

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

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are…

— Richard Powers

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

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

— Ira Glass