My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — 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