“Gradually he realized that the Tube map was a handy fiction that made life easier but bore no resemblance to the reality… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And the state of his bathroom -- I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And that life is what happens when you’re alive, and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” — 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
“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like… — 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
Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe that life is a game, life is a cruel joke and that life is what happens when you’re alive and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of… — 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
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go,… — 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
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“done with the planets and the hills and the trees and the oceans and the lesser beasts. The cliffs that bound existence… — 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
