I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like… — 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… — 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
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — 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
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
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever… — 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
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somebody would say, 'Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, 'Yes, of course,' because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of… — 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 writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward… — 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
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — 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
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — 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 don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great… — 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
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![“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." [ Keynote Address , University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)]” quote by Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e73/neil-gaiman-29_creative-process_the-one-thing-that-you-have-that-nobody_108770.jpg)
