"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."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."
"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.)"
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"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."
"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."