Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work nak... - Neil Gaiman

"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."

"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."

"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."

"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."

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