I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up. Someone once told me that that was me low-balling my own creativity. That might or might not be the case. But still, on the story I am working on now, I do have some unresolved problem. It doesn’t keep me awake at nights. I feel like when it comes down, it will be there ….

Stephen King (b. 1947) American author

Interview with Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman’s Journal (blog) (28 Apr 2012)

Unabridged version of a Sunday Times Magazine interview. Full text.