Tip 1: get inspiration from songs. Songs can have great lyrics to inspire you and an amazing story!

Tip 2: be nosy, listen to conversations. You might just get a phenomenal idea!

Tip 3: read, read and read some more. You can get inspiration from plots and make it your own!

Tip 4: download or find a story plot generator. Simple as that.

Tip 5: brainstorm. There are no wrong answers.

Mistake 1: spelling changes. Make sure you spell names, locations, magic spells, etc, the same all the way through. Also, be consistent with capitilization.

Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an evolving landscape. There are characters that die. There are characters that stay on. There are characters that go away. I love that.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation but for life satisfaction.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

I work out.

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

Marriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.

These are the kinds of names that Zimbabweans like: names that have positive qualities. Like, Praise is a very popular name; Loveness is a very popular name.

I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In '09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.