Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself,” she told him. “I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer… — 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