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
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
“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.” — 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
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in… — 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 realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — 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
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside,… — 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
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the… — 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
“. . . 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
“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — 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
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about… — 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
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning… — 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
“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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