But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And… — 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
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third.… — 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