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I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.