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The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions. -- Patricia Garfield
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences -- Albert Bandura
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. -- Thomas A. Edison
I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea. -- Matt de la Pena
My novels are all ideas. -- Michel Houellebecq
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. -- Jane Green
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. -- William Gibson
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. -- Norman Mailer
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. -- Elizabeth Bowen
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. -- Heinrich Mann
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. -- Scarlett Thomas
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. -- Jacqueline Leo
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. -- Matthew Vaughn
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. -- George Stephen
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. -- Steven Saylor
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. -- Jess Walter
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer. -- Romola Garai
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. -- Paul Berg
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel. -- Anita Shreve
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West. -- Alastair Reynolds
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me. -- Italo Calvino
Ideas can come while reading a good novel. -- Ben van Berkel
The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. -- Kim Edwards
The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. -- Kim Edwards
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses. -- Charles Stross
Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways. -- John Kao

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