"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
"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."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."