Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — 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
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
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — 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
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — 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
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you… — 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
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — 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
“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — 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
