It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some… — 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
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."… — 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
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — 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