“When you don’t know where you’re going it always seems longer—you ever notice that? First time takes forever, and then ever after… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The hawk-headed man who walked beside her looked down at his penis and seemed, for the first time, to become aware of… — 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'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow walked the meadow, making his own slow circles around the trunk of the tree, gradually widening his circle. Sometimes he would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I only met Mad Sweeney twice, alive," he said. "The first time I thought he was a world-class jerk with the devil… — 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