Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.
No one who writes a good book is really dead.
For some miracles can only occur in the dark.
People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.
Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.