“I want to make time stretchier. I would like much more rubbery days, and I just wish that you could lean on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't… — 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
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
“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
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — 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
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — 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
“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
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
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
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I only met Mad Sweeney twice, alive," he said. "The first time I thought he was a world-class jerk with the devil… — 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
“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
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at… — 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
