Hope Jahren Quotes

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

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.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

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

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

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.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

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

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

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.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

The power of imagination is infinite.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

I need to be creative all the time.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

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 more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

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