He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — 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
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
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy… — 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
