My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy… — 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
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — 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