If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent... - Neil Gaiman

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."

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

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

"But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)"