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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

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Force

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Helmut Jahn

Idea

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Character

Words

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Natalie Imbruglia

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Old