"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."
"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."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."
"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."