We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — 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
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of… — 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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