“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When the last of the fireworks had vanished in a cloud of golden stars, she said, "I came home." I didn't say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I was sad that nobody had come to my party, but happy that I had a Batman figure, and there was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A poor man found himself in a forest as night fell, and he had no prayer book to say his evening prayers.… — 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
