The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“CHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Escucha, no hagas ninguna tontería [...]. Acércate con cuidado. Somételo, cierra sus caminos y haz que vuelva a dormir.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — 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
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lettie shrugged. “Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving. I know… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — 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
