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Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.
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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
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You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.
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I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.


Alex Winter
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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.


Paul Auster
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I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.


Thomas Piketty
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Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.
Jonathan Tropper
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These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
Dave Sim
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.


Jessamyn West
The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
Valorie Curry
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If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.
Daniel Kahneman
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Hanna Rosin
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.


Victor Garber
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.
Suzanne Collins
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As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.
Guy Davenport
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What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we're establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.
Phoebe Philo
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You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.


George M. Church
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