You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You still there?’ he asked. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know where you’re going it always seems longer—you ever notice that? First time takes forever, and then ever after… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You think you're being given all of these things: phones that can communicate with other devices, car service that's better than a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If I wasn’t born, what am I doing here?’ ‘You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse...’ He saw her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could… — 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
