I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — 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
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 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
“When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — 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
“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 don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced if I keep going one day I will write something decent. On very bad days I will observe that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough,… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — 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
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's… — 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
