Ray Bradbury Quotes

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.