I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — 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
“But it was a dream, and in dreams, sometimes, you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream…But the price… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Quite remarkable. An associative house, every room of which is located somewhere else. So imaginative. Your grandfather was a man of vision,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I woke myself in the darkness, and I knew only that a dream had scared me so badly that I had to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What are you?” he asked. “What are you people?” She yawned, showing a perfect, dark-pink tongue. “Think of us as symbols—we’re the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Trolls can smell the rainbows, trolls can smell the stars," it whispered sadly. "Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed before you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without… — 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
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You're alive...That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world… — 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