Writer Quotes by Neil Gaiman

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Books are real places, make no mistake about that”

— Neil Gaiman

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

Books were safer than other people anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are our friends.

— Neil Gaiman

“I'll be with my books . ”

— Neil Gaiman

“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

— Neil Gaiman

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

— Neil Gaiman

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

— Neil Gaiman

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once…

— Neil Gaiman

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,…

— Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a…

— Neil Gaiman

'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,…

— Neil Gaiman

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like…

— Neil Gaiman

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too…

— Neil Gaiman

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.…

— Neil Gaiman

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the…

— Neil Gaiman

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

— Neil Gaiman

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always…

— Neil Gaiman

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

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a…

— Neil Gaiman

I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the…

— Neil Gaiman

Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down…

— Neil Gaiman

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I…

— Neil Gaiman

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re…

— Neil Gaiman

"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,…

— Neil Gaiman

“The other thing that I would say about writer's block is that it can be very, very subjective. By which I mean,…

— Neil Gaiman