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
“If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.” — 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
“Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you… — 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
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
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. It can be along time between meals. Someone offers you food, you say yes. I'm no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to… — 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
“And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the… — 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
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
“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 noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be… — 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
Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. — 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
“waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories… — 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
“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
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
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. — 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
“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.” — 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
“The moments of déjà vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
