“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What am I doing here?” asked Shadow. “In Lakeside, I mean. Not in the world.” — 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
“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I never had any flesh and blood children, you know. Only words, and paintings, and images of light that flickered in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? Because it’s easier to pass for real, in the dark. And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are clouds between us and them," pointed out Isten of the Hungarians. He had a fine black mustache, a large, dusty… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“dark light. [Not actually an oxymoron. It's the color past ultra-violet. The technical term for it is infrablack. It can be seen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were… — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
