If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — 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