“This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You’re thirty-two years old?” “Yes, sir.” “You look younger.” “Clean living.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets… — 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
I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You are the nearest thing I have to life. You are the only thing I have left, the only thing that isn’t… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.… — 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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