Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Keep all your passions in your life.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career.