Writing Quotes by Neil Gaiman

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

— Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

— Neil Gaiman

“I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman

“As we write we summon little demons.”

— Neil Gaiman

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

— Neil Gaiman

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

— Neil Gaiman

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then…

— 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

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly…

— Neil Gaiman

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

— Neil Gaiman

I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get…

— Neil Gaiman

I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful…

— 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 tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which…

— Neil Gaiman

“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a…

— 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 was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

— 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

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,…

— Neil Gaiman

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

— 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

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

— 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

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write…

— Neil Gaiman

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter…

— 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

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him.…

— Neil Gaiman

“You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish…

— Neil Gaiman