We owe it to each other to tell stories. - Neil Gaiman

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

"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down."

"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."

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

"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."