“Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom. Now, all over the world, all of the people they aren't just… — 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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You aren't scared of limes, are you?" asked Charlie. The creature laughed, scornfully. "I," it said, "am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing,"… — 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