Common Quote by Scott Westerfeld

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking…

— Connie Willis

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my…

— Patricia C. Wrede

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

— Twyla Tharp

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be…

— Jim Henson

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you…

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Ira Glass

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character…

— Jean Fritz

I find my ideas in a number of places - tips, lawsuits, other news stories that raise interesting questions.

— Mina Kimes

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things -…

— Jim Henson

“Where do you get your ideas?” And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren’t old enough to know any better. And it’s…

— Neil Gaiman

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

— Judy Blume

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

— Lazaro Hernandez