Finding Inspiration

One of the questions I hear most often (whether it’s being asked of me or a friend) is:

“Where do you get your ideas?”
It’s something that comes up all the time. Everyone wants to know we got to sparkly vampires, a wizard school, that one ring, or a family’s drama screwing up the galaxy one lightsaber swing at a time.
So what’s the answer? Where do these things come from?
I read once that