Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
by Grace Lin
updated 6mo ago
by Grace Lin
updated 6mo ago
ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are. Ideas are things that grow.... See more
Mo Willems: And so the way to make a book or a story is to have the tiniest inkling of an idea and then to plant it and you
Elena added 6mo ago
Grace Lin: She asks, Where do you get your ideas?... See more
Mo Willems: Well, Leah, that's a very good question and I'm afraid you may not like the answer because ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are.
sari added 8mo ago