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I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

— Margaret Mahy

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✓Similar Perspectives

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

— Mary Pope Osborne

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

— Mohnish Pabrai

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

— Kami Garcia

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

— Yuna

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

— Laura Bell Bundy

I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.

— Jonah Peretti

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

— Diane von Furstenberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

— Jeff Koons