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 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
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — 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
“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your life is your own, Rainie. So is your death. And oblivion...? That's not an option, I'm afraid. -Death” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.” — 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
“(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will… — 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
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
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What you have to remember,” said Mr. Ibis, testily, “is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, it goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead and otherwise in this story are fictional or used in… — 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
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a… — 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
