Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

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.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

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.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It's coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don't even know where they are.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

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

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

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

Every now and again, something will pop into my head when I'm driving or I'm in the shower, you'll just get an image and it stays with you. It doesn't have to be much, it doesn't have to be a story, it could just be an image. But it won't leave your head and that's when you know you've got something.

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

I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

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

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.