“I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And as for happiness, there’s a lot of different kinds of happiness, just as there’s a hell of a lot of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I fought for America. My country. I protected America. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Democracy. Not something you people have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Man ain’t happy till he kills everything in his path and cuts down everything that grows. He sees something wild and beautiful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city-here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Are you happy?” asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his… — 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