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
You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — 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
