More quotes by Neil Gaiman

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