Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced if I keep going one day I will write something decent. On very bad days I will observe that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a… — 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
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — 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
“It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get… — 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
