Stephen King Quotes

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.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

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.

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.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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

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.

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.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

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.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

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

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

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.