Laurie R. King Quotes

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.