Neil Gaiman

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a…

— Neil Gaiman

“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally…

— Neil Gaiman

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed…

— Neil Gaiman

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us…

— Neil Gaiman

So many things to see, people to do.

— Neil Gaiman

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

— Neil Gaiman

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once…

— Neil Gaiman

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster…

— Neil Gaiman

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

— Neil Gaiman

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

— Neil Gaiman

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

— Neil Gaiman

What do stars do? They shine.

— Neil Gaiman

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things,"…

— Neil Gaiman

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be…

— Neil Gaiman

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”

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“Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of…

— Neil Gaiman

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

— Neil Gaiman

“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land…

— Neil Gaiman

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and…

— Neil Gaiman

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,…

— Neil Gaiman

“You still there?’ he asked. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell…

— Neil Gaiman

“But there’s none so blind—ow! Good one!—as those who will not listen.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I woke myself in the darkness, and I knew only that a dream had scared me so badly that I had to…

— Neil Gaiman

“It's what people do. They believe. And when they will not take responsibilities for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not…

— Neil Gaiman

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

— Neil Gaiman