"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."
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"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."
"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."