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
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
“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — 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
“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful… — 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
“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'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
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — 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
“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn… — 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
“You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — 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
