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.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Cowards can never be moral.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. Focus on your character not your reputation. Focus on your blessings not your misfortunes.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'