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
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
People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with. — 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
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — 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
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
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
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — 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
Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.... — 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
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
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
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
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
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how 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 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
