Writing Quotes by Neil Gaiman

“I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

— Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

— Neil Gaiman

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

— Neil Gaiman

“We are writing the future in Letters of Fire.”

— 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

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

— 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

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

— Neil Gaiman

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it…

— 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'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually…

— Neil Gaiman

“When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them?…

— Neil Gaiman

I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive…

— Neil Gaiman

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it…

— 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

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

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

— Neil Gaiman

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors…

— 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

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

— Neil Gaiman

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that…

— Neil Gaiman

“Where do you get your ideas?” And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren’t old enough to know any better.…

— Neil Gaiman

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him.…

— Neil Gaiman

“You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish…

— Neil Gaiman

“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been…

— Neil Gaiman

“In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

“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

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

— Neil Gaiman