Hilary Mantel Quotes

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

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

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.

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

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

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

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

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

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.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

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.

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

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

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