We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our imaginings (if they are ours) should be based in our own lives and experiences, all our memories. But all of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you saw two groups of children arguing over which of them could play in some waste ground, would you chose sides?” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — 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
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city-here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — 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
