You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once… — 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
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to… — 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
This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write… — 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