Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. — 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
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — 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
Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. 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