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."

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

"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."

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

"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)"