And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we… — 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
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — 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
“The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived and then, by some means or another, died.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. It can be along time between meals. Someone offers you food, you say yes. I'm no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My last girlfriend was Greek,” said the Iceman. “The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Laura made a great chili. She used lean meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Mister whoever-the-fuck you are,” said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, “there isn't enough money… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He started to list the coin vanishes he had mastered, which reminded him of the coin he had tossed into Laura's grave,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — 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
