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Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant, — Diane Chamberlain

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. — Orson Scott Card

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas. — Quinn Anderson

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. — Harvey Fierstein

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. — Brian Selznick

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

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places. — Michelle Paver

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. — Brian Keene

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better. — Henry James

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling." — Akiva Goldsman

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross

You want the story of my life?
Big ideas, small results. — Barbara Stanwyck

But although quality, price, and advertising contribute to products and ideas being successful, they don't explain the whole story. — Jonah Berger

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. — John Waters

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever. — Sharon Olds

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. — William Butler Yeats

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

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband. — Ruta Sepetys

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas. — Volker Bertelmann

The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck. — Douglas Adams

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

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas. — Steven Soderbergh

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past, — Jeffrey Katzenberg

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway. — William Campbell Gault

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it. — Kevin Spacey

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to. — Rebecca Eaton

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

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. — Simone Weil

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true. — Ben Mezrich

Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story. — Lily King

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. — Jean M. Auel

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. — Napoleon Hill

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes. — Robert Crais

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls. — Alexandra York

Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea. — Rebecca Paula

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great. — Markus Zusak

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story. — Steven Soderbergh

I see story ideas. All the time. They're everywhere. Just walking around like normal ideas. They don't know they're stories. — Jennifer Brozek

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is. — Steven Soderbergh

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. — Douglas Wood

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story. — Amy Hempel

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out. — Ernest Hemingway,

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas. — Jill Abramson

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners. — Jill Tarter

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style. — Xavier Dolan