“Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say they're scared for the fear to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He did not awake in prison with a feeling of dread; he was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because… — 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
If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So go my little love. Touch the world. Eat their hearts and poison their dreams. Rip their nightmares into the daylight and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“didn’t worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He did not awake in prison… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It’s a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after… — 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
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I wished I could have seen who was talking. If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it was an excellent idea. Although… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was sort of like Macbeth , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accurate, but would fail to give the full… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Do not fear the ghosts in this house; they are the least of your worries. Personally I find the noises they make… — 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
I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of."… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Now,” she told them, “now is the time to be afraid of the dark.” Richard knew that something was about to creep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And he knew that there would always be the fear before performing, the stage fright, that would never go away, but he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't… — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
