Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually… — 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
I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the… — 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
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space… — 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
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were… — 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
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of… — 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
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real… — 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