Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
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I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
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.
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.