Writing Ideas Quotes

“Bye-bye. Nice knowing you. But if you are waiting for that perfect idea to strike like lightning during a dust storm (I live in New Mexico), you could be waiting a long time. Ideas are everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I can’t walk to the bathroom without being hit with another idea. It’s what you DO with that idea that matters.

Here is your mantra: BICHOK, BICHOK, BICHOK

Translation: Butt in chair, hands on keys. Just write. Every stinking day.”
― Darynda Jones

“And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“What doesn't kill me provides writing material.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Where do writers get their ideas from? Anywhere and everywhere.

Nothing is sacred.”
― Darynda Jones

“Have you thought about what you want to write about?"
I shrug. "Working in Pop's Deli, I thought," I tell her. I could describe the ladies who come in on their lunch break. The old men with their oniony smells. I can talk about how I make their lives better with smoked salmon and capers, and how, even though there are fewer customers than there used to be, we've formed a community there. I can use just enough detail that it might be clear how an everything bagel is a metaphor for the whole world.”
― Phoebe North, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

“Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.”
― Pawan Mishra, On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing