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Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere. — Sue B. Zimmerman

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem. — Ymatruz

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

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

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

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

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart. — Katherine Paterson

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy. — Marty Rubin

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

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads. — Janet Evanovich

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

Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix. — Gudjon Bergmann

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

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer

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 mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea. — St. Lucia

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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 you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. — Kenneth Koch

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy ... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it. — Matt Damon

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

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea. — Frank O'Connor

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can. — Iliza Shlesinger

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas. — S.A. Tawks

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious. — Ricky Gervais

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside. — John Darnielle

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 — Joseph Joubert

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are! — Lewis Carroll

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across. — Kevin Spacey

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. — Rod Serling

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it. — Stephen Sondheim

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions. — Saul Williams

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville

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

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. — Henry Ward Beecher

Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry

It's not an idea until you write it down. — Ivan Sutherland

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. — Diane Setterfield

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. — John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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