Michel Foucault Quotes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.