ideas Quotes

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.