Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all.

~Anne Tyler.

To escape criticism–do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

~Elbert Hubbard

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

~Milli Thornton

Quotes For Writers: Inspiration, Advice, Humor & Motivational Stories From Famous Authors offers practical tips and advice to improve your writing skills, motivate you to finish writing your book. You’ll find writing prompts, and sparks for your imagination through humor quotes, blunt opinions, and even writers’ quotes for therapy!

In this short excerpt of his sold-out session for the Wheeler Centre, Neil Gaiman addresses the age old question faced by writers everywhere: where do you get your ideas?

For me, inspiration comes from a bunch of places: desperation, deadlines…

A lot of times ideas will turn up when you’re doing something else. And, most of all, ideas come from confluence — they come from two things flowing together. They come, essentially, from daydreaming. And I suspect that’s something every human being does.

Writers tend to train themselves to notice when they’ve had an idea — it’s not that they have any more ideas or get inspired more than anything else; we just notice when it happens a little bit more.

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