Nicholas Sparks Quotes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I have fantastic ideas.

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

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

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

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

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