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
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — 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
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book… — 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
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed… — 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
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — 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
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