Ideas Quotes

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.