Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — 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
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — 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
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — 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
