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
She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — 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
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
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
“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?' 'Different woman,' said Mr. Nancy. 'Same… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it… — 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 the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,… — 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
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — 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
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — 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
“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
“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
“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
