“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — 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
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — 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
“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
