“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever… — 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
There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be… — 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