Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors

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.

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

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