A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted… — 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 wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be… — 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
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — 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