She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children? — 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
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I never had any flesh and blood children, you know. Only words, and paintings, and images of light that flickered in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And then he said, “Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children?” “Different woman,”… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — 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
“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
“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
“Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true. She lived through the war. In 1959 she came… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — 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
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and… — 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
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