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

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

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"We owe it to each other to tell stories."

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

"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."