I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely… — 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
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — 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
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the… — 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
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — 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
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
Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — 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
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — 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