Eugenio Montale Quotes

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.

Most of my work is in my mind.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I'm interested in creating new work.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

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.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.