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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

My novels are all ideas.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.