Ideas, Themes and Originality by Malachy Doyle

Where do you get your ideas from? That’s one of the questions I’m most often asked. My imagination, I usually say. Memories of childhood, I add. Observation. Experience. But ideas come from anywhere and everywhere. A phrase overheard on the bus. The person in front of you at the check-out. A picture on a postcard someone sent you from Peru. That silly/strange/funny thing you did/saw/heard/read/thought yesterday.