I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The… — 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
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one.… — 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
It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through… — 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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