She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — 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 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
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — 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
You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he… — 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
