“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Still. Four words. And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear… — 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
“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
“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I… — 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
![“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing." [ The Guardian , 15 October 2013]” quote by Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/357/neil-gaiman-29_books_i-believe-we-have-an-obligation-to-read_1054526.jpg)
