“as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I loved the sound of words, even if I was not entirely certain what all of them meant” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to use language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. — 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
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Talk is free,” said Odd, “but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.” It was something his father used to… — 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