First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too… — 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
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
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
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera… — 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
The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — 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
“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
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