Able Quote by Terence McKenna

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

— Heinrich Mann

Let nothing novel be introduced!

— Pope Pius XII

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An…

— Ron Rash

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the…

— Virginia Hamilton

“The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but…

— John Maynard Keynes

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

— Phil Cooke

Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.

— Ron Brown

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus…

— Ira Sachs

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

— Elizabeth Bowen