We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.” — 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
“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
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
“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — 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
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
In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it… — 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
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 hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — 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
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
“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
