Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

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.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

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

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

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

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

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

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

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

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.