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You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

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

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.