“Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So you all remember: just because you're small, doesn't mean you got no power.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Mister whoever-the-fuck you are,” said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, “there isn't enough money… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived and then, by some means or another, died.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My last girlfriend was Greek,” said the Iceman. “The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. It can be along time between meals. Someone offers you food, you say yes. I'm no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't know why this happened to me. But it's hard. You know why dead people only go out at night,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He started to list the coin vanishes he had mastered, which reminded him of the coin he had tossed into Laura's grave,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Laura made a great chili. She used lean meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Makes you feel sorry for the gods and goddesses, doesn't it? After their temples fall apart. I wonder what happens to them?… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
