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

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 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.

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel where the bedroom is like a cell and the Internet doesn't work. I feel quite aggrieved at that because you should at least be treated reasonably well and have basic comfort.

'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.