Kieran Bew Quotes

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Libraries are where it all begins.

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

Ideas are information taking shape.

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

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.