George R. R. Martin Quotes

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

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.

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

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

I love the creative process - brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

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

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.

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

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Planning to write is not writing.

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

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.