“I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set… — 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
You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — 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 hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something. — 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
"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — 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