Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.
Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
You just have to fight your way through.
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'