Books Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image ““They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Ah, the magic of books. The kind of magic that had nothing to do with witches or spells or charms. And was perhaps even… — Heather Blake Copy Share Image
“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Your spells are derivatives of the information, experience , and desire you put forth.” — Rachel E. Carter Copy Share Image
“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Magic lands in books had always seemed close to nature, but in a nice way, without all the unpleasant details.” — Sarah Rees Brennan 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
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image