Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — 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
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
“Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a… — 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
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing. — 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 don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — 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
If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — 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 was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — 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
“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them?… — 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 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
“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
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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