Gail Simone Quotes

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

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

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 usually have two or three ideas floating around. When I have free time, the one I end up thinking most about is the one I end up pursuing.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Everything begins with an idea.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

We can invent only with memory.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

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

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.

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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

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.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.