Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challeng... - Neil Gaiman
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
"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."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"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."
"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."