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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.