Quotes About Ideas

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

My novels are all ideas.

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.