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

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

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.

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and at the same time so glad.

I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type really fast to get the lesson done quick because the teacher had a little acoustic guitar, and there was a girl I had a crush on in the class. I would take the guitar and pretend to be some great singer-songwriter, serenade her with joke songs.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

I am phenomenal.

If you surround yourself with clowns dont be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

Hour glasses remind us not only of how time flies but at the same time of the dust into which we shall one day decay.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?