He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. — 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
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
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the… — 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
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
“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
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
Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the… — 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
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
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves. — 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
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — 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 don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — 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
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