All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b)… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — 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
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives… — 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
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
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. — 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
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. — 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
I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — 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