I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really… — 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
The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said… — 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
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and… — 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
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — 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
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed… — 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
No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile… — 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