Bruce Coville Quotes

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

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

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

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

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

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

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

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