Neil Gaiman

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."

"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."

"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

"I really don't know what "I love you"means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."

"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down."

"We owe it to each other to tell stories."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."