It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to… — 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
“... and we held our breath, just for a moment, to see if the world had ended, but it hadn't, so we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.” — 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
“DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly. "Live," said the monk. "You shall be revenged," said the fox.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She'd run her life according to the Prophecies and now there were no more Prophecies. She must be feeling like a train… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This is my body, he said, two thousand years ago. This is my blood. It was the only religion that delivered exactly… — 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
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said… — 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
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Horus is crazy, really bugfuck crazy, spends all his time as a hawk, eats roadkill, what kind of a life is that?” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He was close enough that Shadow could see his face: old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are… — 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
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 are always places to go further down, even when you've been taken off the board; life goes on, even if it's… — 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
