My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually… — 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 hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my… — 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
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven… — 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
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new… — 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
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by… — 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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
