Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar. “What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a… — 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