“I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local to...” — Neil Gaiman Quote

“I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.”

“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.”

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

“I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.”

“So many things to see, people to do.”

“What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'”

“I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

“I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.”

“It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.”

“If Barca call me, I'll drop everything.”

“I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.”

“Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”