#ideas

People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times. ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#inspirational #sandy-nathan #tales-from-earth-s-end #using-hard-timesideas-for-books #where-to-get-inspiration

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. ↗

— Laura Ashley

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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. ↗

— Charles Eames

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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

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The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas. ↗

— Phil Donahue

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I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

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