Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — 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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People… — 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
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough,… — 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
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