You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that… — 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
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — 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
A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle… — 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
