“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — 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
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 think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — 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 loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of… — 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
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
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — 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
You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You don’t expect your readers to go, “Ah this book’s not just a fine work of literary whatshisname, but also a get-rich-quick… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Still. Four words. And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I… — 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
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths… — 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
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 loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
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