My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — 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
I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything… — 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