Writer Quotes by Neil Gaiman

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are our friends.

— Neil Gaiman

“I'll be with my books . ”

— Neil Gaiman

Books were safer than other people anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Books are real places, make no mistake about that”

— Neil Gaiman

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

— Neil Gaiman

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

— Neil Gaiman

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

— Neil Gaiman

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than…

— Neil Gaiman

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of…

— Neil Gaiman

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up…

— Neil Gaiman

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,…

— Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What…

— Neil Gaiman

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different…

— Neil Gaiman

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that…

— Neil Gaiman

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you…

— Neil Gaiman

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…

— Neil Gaiman

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a…

— Neil Gaiman

“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

— Neil Gaiman

One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning…

— Neil Gaiman

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…

— Neil Gaiman

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an…

— Neil Gaiman

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

— Neil Gaiman

Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,…

— Neil Gaiman

“YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has…

— Neil Gaiman

“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,…

— Neil Gaiman

“The other thing that I would say about writer's block is that it can be very, very subjective. By which I mean,…

— Neil Gaiman

Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down…

— Neil Gaiman

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If…

— Neil Gaiman