"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."
"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."
"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."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"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."