The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.
when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.
Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.
It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.
He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.
