One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — 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
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are… — 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
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
“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
