There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b)… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You're playing with fire," she warned him. "That's how I know I'm alive.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — 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