Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — 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
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
“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