Big idea Quote by Scarlett Thomas

My novels are all ideas.

— Michel Houellebecq

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

— Joseph Heller

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

— Tracy Chevalier

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

— Peter James

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle