“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — 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 already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer… — 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
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself. — 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
