It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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
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
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — 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