I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how… — 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
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
Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’and if they asked where you’re… — 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