I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Began to tear at it - not as a creature that eats earth and grass, but as if it were eating a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was not pitch-black. It was the kind of cloudy night where the clouds seem to gather up light from distant streetlights… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They heard a distant rumbling, like thunder on the peaks, or mountains crumbling, or huge waves crashing to shore, and the earth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“-No man-, proclaimed Donne, -is an island-, and he was wrong. if we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But you will remember it, in the soft, lost, slumbering moments between waking and true sleep: remember the whispering voices of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Diggory's Dyke was a deep cut between two chalk downs-high, green hills, where a thin layer of green grass and reddish earth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her. Put like that it seems so simple. No man, proclaimed Donne, is an… — 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