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 Copy Share Image
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to… — 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
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
“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.” — 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
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — 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
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are… — 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
I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — 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
“In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 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
“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward… — 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
