“For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“dark outline against the mist-smudged streetlights. He paused for a moment, then climbed down the other side, holding on to the top… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your turn in the chair next time,” said October. “I know,” said November. He was pale and thin-lipped. He helped October out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And what we learn about ourselves in those moments, where the trigger has been squeezed, is this: the past is not dead.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the… — 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
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But you will remember it, in the soft, lost, slumbering moments between waking and true sleep: remember the whispering voices of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.” — 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 decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to. — 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
“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — 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
