Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact). — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — 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
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
“An idea doesn’t have to be a plot notion, just a place to begin creating. Plots often generate themselves when one begins… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — 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
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — 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
