Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.” — 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
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
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I," she told him, "can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe." "Really?" "I can believe things that are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not… — 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
“This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The Doctor had a remarkable memory. The problem was, there was so much of it. He had lived eleven lives (or more:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That´s the trouble with living things. Don´t last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good… — 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