Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

Every now and again, something will pop into my head when I'm driving or I'm in the shower, you'll just get an image and it stays with you. It doesn't have to be much, it doesn't have to be a story, it could just be an image. But it won't leave your head and that's when you know you've got something.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.