Phil Klay Quotes

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

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits of paper and then, more recently, on apps in my phone. I've always written poetry since I was a kid.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

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

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

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

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

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

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.