"Ineffability"
- Good Omens (book) by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
"Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow."
On Writing &/or other Professional Expertise
"Terry [Pratchett] has been writing professionally for a very long time, honing his craft, getting quietly better and better. The biggest problem he faces is the problem of excellence: he makes it look easy. This can be a problem. The public doesn't know where the craft lies. It's wiser to make it look harder than it is, a lesson all jugglers learn."
- Neil Gaimen on Terry Pratchett
On Writing &/or other Professional Expertise
"Well, he's no genius. He's better than that. He's not a wizard in other words, but a conjurer. Wizards don't have to work. They wave their hands and the magic happens. But conjurers now... conjurors work very hard. They spend a lot of time in their youth watching,very carefully, the best conjurors of their day. They seek out old books of trickery and, being natural conjurors, read everything else as well, because history itself is just a magic show. They observe the way people think, and the many ways in which they don't."
- Terry Pratchett on Neil Gaimen
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