In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid num….

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get ….

The more you reason the less you create..

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a di….

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what i….

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial….

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions..

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title..

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist..

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art..

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in….

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bou….

I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was se….

Knowledge isn’t love.

Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers wav….

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas..

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, so….

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them..

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past..

I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for….

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world….