I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — 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
The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They… — 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
The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough,… — 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
