Harry Knowles Quotes

When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

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.

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

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

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

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

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

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.