| What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in. |
| One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster. |
| Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it. |
| If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. |
| One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. |
| Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. |
| The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. |
| Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. |
| The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. |
| College isn't the place to go for ideas. |