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When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying. — Amy Heckerling

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas . — Eric Hoffer

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas. — Patrick Ness

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought. — Tim Fargo

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. — Joe Satriani

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's. — Charles Martin Smith

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. — Christina Westover

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address. — Matthea Harvey

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing. — Peter Benchley

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas. — Shiloh Fernandez

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know. — PJ Harvey

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. — Ann Brashares

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. — Edward Abbey

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. — Brian Lumley

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I'd never get anything done. — Lawrence C. Connolly

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll

A writer is a messenger for the subconscious. — Mark Tilbury

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs. — Chuck Palahniuk

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it. — Johnny Cash

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. — Red Red Rover

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it. — J. Golden Kimball

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked. — Meghan Daum

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. — Ted Nugent

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them. — W. Somerset Maugham

Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas. — A.M. McKnight

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow. — Kirby Larson

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one — Jo Linsdell

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H.L. Mencken

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg

Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air. — Tom Robbins

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) — Neil Gaiman

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea. — Alex Gansa

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly. — Merilyn Simonds

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it. — Chrys Fey

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. — Irwin Shaw

I never started from ideas but always from character. — Ivan Turgenev

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader. — Steve Dunham

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible. — Bill Watterson

I might be into writing ... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas. — Kevin Dillon

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

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 I write. — Aldous Huxley

Be daring to push your ideas forward. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury

As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light. — Fennel Hudson

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought. — Toby Keith

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them. — Diane Johnson

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again. — DJ Shadow

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. — Pippa DaCosta

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why. — Chris Hardwick

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. — Tara VanDerveer

Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose. — Barbara Minto

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. — Walter Benjamin

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out. — Adora Svitak

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. — Jane Yolen

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield

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

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. — Steve Martin

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are. — Luis Negron