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."
More quotes by Neil Gaiman
"I really don't know what "I love you"means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"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)"
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."