We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.” — 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
Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. — 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
“you got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up!” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that people in the story change.But I was seven when all these things… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The way a story is told is as important as the story being told, although the way that the story is told… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how 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
