"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."
"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"
"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."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"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."
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."