A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on... - Neil Gaiman

"Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you."

"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."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"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."