It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow had made a face, but he had started to read, and had found himself hooked against his will.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He fumbled around with his eyes closed. He groped about, reaching for the comfortable and familiar shaft of his hammer.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something to light his hues; but no… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“and afterwards he remembered only the sense that he was leaving somewhere small and sensible that made sense for somewhere huge and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He liked being big and strong. It gave him an identity. He’d been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“For a moment, upon waking, he had no idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if… — 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
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
“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Afterward he remembered only the feeling that he was about to leave somewhere small and rational - a place that made sense… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.… — 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
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — 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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
