I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.
We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.