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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.'

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

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 actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.