You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but… — 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
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists… — 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 like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you… — 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
