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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.