Novel Ideas Quotes

#1. Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

Albert Bandura

#2. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

#3. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. The

Adam M. Grant

#4. Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. Of

Adam M. Grant

#5. Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Thomas A. Edison

#6. Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.

Patricia Garfield

#7. APM's core purpose of creating innovative new products and services means dealing with constant technological and competitive change, generating novel ideas, and continually reducing product development schedules.

Jim Highsmith

#8. The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#9. I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

Matt De La Pena

#10. Today's world needs a workforce of creative, curious, and self-directed lifelong learners who are capable of conceiving and implementing novel ideas. Unfortunately, this is the type of student that the Prussian model actively suppresses.

Salman Khan

#11. A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

#12. The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first.So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

Rick Moody

#13. Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Hedi Slimane

#14. For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

Meg Wolitzer

#15. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Richard Scarsbrook

#16. Music can trigger feelings, which in turn produce thoughts and images in our minds - it is these thoughts and images that can become novel solutions and innovative new ideas. Music is therefore directly related to the production of new ideas.

Richard Watson

#17. The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Nicholas Royle

#18. A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter,

Gregory Berns

#19. I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

PJ Harvey

#20. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Don Marquis

#21. The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

#22. Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Walter Savage Landor

#23. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

Wayne Dyer

#24. In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.

William O. Douglas

#26. Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

Julie Klassen

#27. I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

Charles Stross

#28. I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

Colson Whitehead

#29. For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

Jonathan Evison

#30. I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel.

Terry Pratchett

#31. Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Stef Penney

#32. I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

James Thayer

#33. I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Adora Svitak

#34. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Pearl Zhu

#35. Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it.

Azar Nafisi

#36. At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Terence McKenna

#37. Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

#38. 'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Kim Edwards

#39. I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

Sue Monk Kidd

#40. The novel is the medium which makes it possible for people of ordinary intelligence to communicate their ideas to the world.

Virginia Woolf

#41. Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

Maggie Stiefvater

#42. A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

#43. You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

Wilbur Smith

#44. To us, innovation entails both the production and implementation of novel and useful ideas.

Anonymous

#45. It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

Anuj

#46. Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

#47. One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

Samantha Harvey

#48. A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

Don DeLillo

#49. Sadly, too many today take for granted public schools, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality before the law, forgetting that these were ever novel and daring ideas. Once

David McCullough

#50. Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.

Clare Boylan

#51. An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Umberto Eco

#52. Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a Silence Of The Lambs type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if The Tick was a graphic novel!

Kurt Fuller

#53. A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

Barbara Walters

#54. Almost every writer I know dreads the moment when someone tries to give you an idea. It's not that the ideas are bad, just that the relationship between writer and novel is so personal that it's a little like someone trying to play matchmaker for a happily married person.

Laura Lippman

#55. I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Alison Pill

#56. A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

#57. Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Charles McCarry

#58. The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Diane Johnson

#59. If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

Sylvia Plath

#60. Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise

Victor Turner

#61. Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Ellie Ann

#62. When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.

Chris Hegedus

#63. I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

Dinaw Mengestu

#64. I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

#65. My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

James Thayer

#66. Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.

Erik Naggum

#67. There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Heinrich Mann

#68. 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

#69. A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.

Milan Kundera

#70. Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Ben Van Berkel

#71. If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

Philip Greenspun

#72. I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Jenny Offill

#73. What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Justin Simien

#74. Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Steven Saylor

#75. The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.

Katherine Paterson

#76. I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project.

Jade Hassoune