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

"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."

"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)"

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"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."