We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — 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
A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass… — 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've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections. — 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