It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the Marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before. — 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
I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from… — 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
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
In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized… — 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
“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