It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You are the nearest thing I have to life. You are the only thing I have left, the only thing that isn’t… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — 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
