Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know... — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.… — 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
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're… — 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