The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

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

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.