When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What… — 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're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists… — 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
I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever… — 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
She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You really don't understand, do you? I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it… — 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
