Makeup Department Quotes by Neil Gaiman

“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

“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

“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

“[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

So many things to see, people to do.

— Neil Gaiman

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

— Neil Gaiman

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

— Neil Gaiman

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

— Neil Gaiman

What do stars do? They shine.

— Neil Gaiman

“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

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

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”

— neil Gaiman