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.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

Do good work and share it with people.

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."