“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — 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
“We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Here is the last thing, and a shameful admission it is. When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME “That day, the saucer day the zombie day The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like… — 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