“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — 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… — 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
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
Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — 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
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write. — 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
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somebody would say, `Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, `Yes, of course,' because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — 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
