“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — 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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Ten more minutes of walking, he guessed, and the bridge seemed to be no nearer. He was too cold to shiver. His… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be 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