Writing Ideas Quotes

Writing Ideas Quote of the day

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

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

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

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

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

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

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

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

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.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

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.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

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

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.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

What doesn't kill me provides writing material.