All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work… — 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
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a… — 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
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
I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through… — 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