Where do you get your ideas?

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“Part of the romance of writing is that the people who hand you your book ideas never know they’re doing it.”

—Richard Peck, Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[handworn.livejournal.com]

I'll have to find that. I'm not a writer, but I liked Peck's books a lot when I was young and would value his perspective on the subject. They still hold up, too.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

He has many pithy things to say.