I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact). — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — 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
