Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Laura van den Berg

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down…

— Anthony Horowitz

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

— Ezra Furman

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and…

— Irvine Welsh

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

— Himesh Patel

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

— Anonymous

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

— Charles Stross

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