“The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“ Ah, well, she thought. Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as… — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share