#ideas

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. ↗

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#act #bet #bring #calculated #calculated risk

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. ↗

— David Mamet

#bad time #costumes #had #how #ideas

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. ↗

— Yann Martel

#because #certain #disbelief #help #i

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#arms #because #cat #footnotes #free

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#come #enough #idea #ideas #novel

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#head #i #ideas #just #me

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#come #funny #ideas #jokes #make

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ↗