Knowing Quote by Siobhan Davies

I begin by considering an effect.

— Maurice Ravel

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as…

— Aldous Huxley

“Your brain will come up with a lot of ideas, that doesn't mean you have to go along with the very first one!”

— G. L. Strytler

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming…

— Cassandra Clare

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going…

— T.C. Boyle

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

— Donna Leon

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what…

— Laura van den Berg

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Once you fall into a steady ebb and flow of interpretation, you might experience a curious side effect: an influx of imagination.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the…

— Paul Nurse

“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have…

— Michael Denton