The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know,… — 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
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. — 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