“It’s difficult…ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.”— Pete Hautman, goodreads.com
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”— David Viscott, goodreads.com
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“I’ve got a lot of ideas. I haven’t worked them out and I haven’t proved them out. I carry ideas around in my head for a long time.”— Disney Book Group, amazon.com
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters. Creation is all.”— Pablo Picasso, books.google.com.ph
“I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”— Nikola Tesla, goodreads.com
“I have never seen social interaction this fucked up, and I’ve been in prison.”— Kat Rosenfield, vulture.com
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”— Philip Roth, goodreads.com
“Ideas are a huge, huge blessing. That’s the thing you try to catch – an idea that you fall in love with.”— David Lynch, the-talks.com
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com