And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — 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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were… — 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
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
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it.… — 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