“Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could find real treasures.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted… — 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
“I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing… — 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
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal… — 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 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
“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
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I can believe that things are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody… — 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
“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
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,… — 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