Ben van Berkel Quotes

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

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

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

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

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is extraordinary - I'm amazed, thrilled, and proud to now be portraying one of that phenomenal writer's characters.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

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.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

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

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

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

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.