If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we… — 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