Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” — 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 are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. — 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
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — 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
