I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! – Judy Blume
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. – Jan Koum
I don’t come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. – Jacqueline Bisset
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I’d generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they’d turn into novels. I was biased toward music. – Irvine Welsh
I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best. – Jack Kingston
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it – logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking – but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime. – J. Michael Straczynski
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. – James Longstreet
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true. – Jaime Lerner
I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those. – James Patterson
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. – John Perry Barlow
The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them. – J. M. G. Le Clezio
We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset. – Ivan Glasenberg
There aren’t that many things left that haven’t already been done, especially with music. I’m interested in ideas that can shake us all up. – Jack White
I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven’t heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas. – Jerry Garcia
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. – Isaiah Berlin
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it. – Junot Diaz
Let’s not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution. – John Thune
If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He’s getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul. – Jay Parini
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas. – James Heckman
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. – Jane Smiley
‘A Fair Maiden’ existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes – ‘ideas for stories.’ Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly – in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing. – Joyce Carol Oates
Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don’t have to labor too hard over them. I’ll sing a lead vocal, and then I will immediately have all of these other ideas for vocal harmonies. I think that some of the most fun parts of recording, for me, are the vocal harmonies. – Juliana Hatfield
Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and ‘WhatsApp’; he never had and will never have original ideas. – Jan Koum