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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
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
— Patrick Ness
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
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
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
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
— Arnold Schoenberg
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
— Merilyn Simonds
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
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
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
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 itselfit 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
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
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
