Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for y... - Neil Gaiman

"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."