He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — 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
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
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
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — 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
“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is… — neil gaiman Copy Share Image
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing 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
“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