So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The hawk-headed man who walked beside her looked down at his penis and seemed, for the first time, to become aware of… — 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
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on… — 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
“do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — 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
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I want to make time stretchier. I would like much more rubbery days, and I just wish that you could lean on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If I wasn’t born, what am I doing here?’ ‘You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse...’ He saw her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Now,” she told them, “now is the time to be afraid of the dark.” Richard knew that something was about to creep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning… — 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
“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Delirium: Um. What’s the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I’m sure there is one.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know where you’re going it always seems longer—you ever notice that? First time takes forever, and then ever after… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“... and we held our breath, just for a moment, to see if the world had ended, but it hadn't, so we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk… — 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
