“It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.” — 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
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision — 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
“I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than 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
“We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of… — 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
“The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The dead are, for the most part, done with the world. You are not. You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — 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
