I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish… — 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
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers.… — 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
How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way… — 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
