There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdick, Delaware. They dig my demonic dramas. The metaphysic maims them. They grasp the gravity. They'll duke it out with their demons. They'll serve a surfeit of survival skills. They won't be chronologically crucified.They'll shore up my shit. They'll radically revise it. They'll pass it along.
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It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.
People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I__e been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it__ the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Big ideas are so hard to recognize so fragile so easy to kill. Don't forget that all of you who don't have them.
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.
The material universe exists only in the mind.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.
Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
For parlour use the vague generality is a lifesaver.
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.