“The path of memory is neither straight or safe, and we travel down it at our risk.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our imaginings (if they are ours) should be based in our own lives and experiences, all our memories. But all of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have forgotten much, and I will forget more, and in the end I will forget everything.” — 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
“When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything… — 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
“The Doctor had a remarkable memory. The problem was, there was so much of it. He had lived eleven lives (or more:… — 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