The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

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.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.