“You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.” — 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
“This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break.” — 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
“I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.” — 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
“Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at… — 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
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
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
“ Ah, well, she thought. Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in… — 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
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
“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
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
“It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie… — 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
“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 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
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
“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — 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
“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
“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
“You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s what you were trying to say, isn’t it? I mean, I think … mostly we’re too busy living to stop and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is… — 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
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
“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
“I fought for America. My country. I protected America. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Democracy. Not something you people have… — 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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