Gail Carson Levine Quotes

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

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.

An idea is a feat of association.

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

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

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

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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.

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.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

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

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.