Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — 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
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — 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
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in… — 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
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning… — 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
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for… — 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
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would… — 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
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