“If you cut us, do we not bleed?' Mr. Vandemar pondered this for a moment, in the dark. Then he said with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Were you always like this?’ ‘Like what?’ ‘A madman. With a time machine.’ ‘Oh, no. It took ages until I got the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — 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
“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The hawk-headed man who walked beside her looked down at his penis and seemed, for the first time, to become aware of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse …’ He saw her expression, and stopped. ‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wimey,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Can I hug you?" "Do you want to?"said Bod. "Yes." "Well then."He thought for a moment."I don't mind if you do." "My… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if,… — 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
