I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying… — 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
“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
