Neil Gaiman on writing

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Writers live in houses other people built.

Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say “what kind of tea?”

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

• Love

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

• Reading