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

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

"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."

"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."

"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"

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