There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come, and against the moments one was currently disregarding.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Horus is crazy, really bugfuck crazy, spends all his time as a hawk, eats roadkill, what kind of a life is that?” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem, thought Morrison, was like a deep pool, where time had settle too thickly.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse …’ He saw her expression, and stopped. ‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wimey,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your turn in the chair next time,” said October. “I know,” said November. He was pale and thin-lipped. He helped October out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Where’s Rory? I want him, right now,’ demanded Amy as the TARDIS lurched away into space and time. The Doctor had only… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One moment,’ said Amy, ‘I was about to be eaten by that creature. The next I was sitting in the kitchen, talking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don’t ever remember being afraid of “oldness”. There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME “That day, the saucer day the zombie day The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The paradigms were shifting. He could feel it. The old world, a world of infinite vastness and illimitable resources and future, was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some… — 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
It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And what we learn about ourselves in those moments, where the trigger has been squeezed, is this: the past is not dead.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. — 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
